Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most purposes, the Advocate begins on page 16 with three stories written in Mr. Bush's writing course this summer. Two of these are quite short stories by Mary Montgomery, Courage of the Earth and The Boy and the Lady. Miss Montgomery creates an understandable human situation in her love affair in the well-titled Courage of the Earth, one which anticipates and leads to the inevitable climactic moment, only to be dragged down to the level of an inverted dirty joke by the last sentences ... "Then she did something the courage for which she hadn't imagined...
...composes steadily every morning, and the wonder is that Cowell is as experimental now as he was when he was famed as a bad boy of U.S. music. "Every composition," he says, "is a fresh experiment, a mixture of the familiar and the new. I have more ideas now than I can ever...
...cane are gone, flashes of the old Chaplin illuminate the screen as he pokes fun at rock 'n' roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy...
...Miller's only jobs before going to the Enquirer as a full-fledged columnist at 19 were as a part-time office boy at 20th Century-Fox's Manhattan offices and as a hired hand for a Broadway pressagent. He explains that his journalistic training consisted mainly of burrowing through public-library files for old columns by Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol and mostly, Walter Winchell, the grand old man of keyhole journalism...
With a fine command of Irish idiom, Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush...