Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berries & Bruises. Ambitious Jimmy Hoffa, a smarter boy, hardened his muscles on a series of jobs, most of them part-time, until at 18 he hoisted himself into steady work in Detroit with the Kroger grocery chain. The job: unloading boxcars at 32? an hour. Jimmy and his co-workers got paid only for actual hours worked, though they had to stay close by the loading platforms for 12 to 15 hours a day. In 1932 Jimmy organized a strike. Gathering a six-man committee, he made his demands on the management just as a carload of strawberries and cantaloupes...
...Rais-lived all too real a life five centuries ago in the castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and he came under the wing of his grandfather, Jean de Craon, a notorious libertine and murderer who felt nothing was too bad to teach the boy and nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter of a Norman lord, but that was too much even for medieval sensitivities, and the Parliament of Caen blocked the marriage. So Grandfather kidnaped the young heiress...
Before the trial opened, Girard's Army defense counsel said: "The boy is getting skinny. This thing is so hard on him that he has become a nervous wreck." Fresh from a visit with the defendant, the American Legion's Observer Alvin M. Owsley burbled: "There is something sweet about this youth. He does not stand alone. He is part of America...
...child patient at Little Rock's University of Arkansas hospital made medical history by giving natural birth, two months prematurely, to a 2½lb. boy. Prognosis of the hospital's obstetrics-gynecology chief. Dr. Willis E. Brown: a reasonable chance of survival for the baby. The mother's age: nine years. Youngest birth on record anywhere: a boy born to a five-year-old in Peru...
...Boy. As Don's star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong...