Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four weeks Britain had conducted its scuffle-sized war in Oman with the on-again-off-again hesitation of a small boy who has tied one end of the string to his aching tooth, the other to the doorknob...
JAMES LUKENS McCONAUGHY JR., 42, will become the new chief of the Washington bureau. A graduate of Wesleyan University, where his father, later governor of Connecticut, was president, McConaughy came to TIME in 1938 as a summer-vacation office boy. During World War II he was a Marine bombing control officer in the Pacific. He served as bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle before he moved to Washington in 1951 to report on Capitol Hill. Covering Congress for TIME, big (6 ft. 2 in., 203 lbs.), greying Jim McConaughy says, has been like "trying to report six fires with each...
...nightfall in a cottage when there came a knock at the door. Carmelo ordered the refugees out the back window, calmly opened the door, tossed out a grenade, slammed the door and escaped through the back window himself. To a father who had to leave a ten-year-old boy behind, Carmelo pledged, "You'll get your son back." Seven months later he raided a detention camp deep in Yugoslavia, found the boy and delivered him to Trieste. Once he made a special trip to bring out a farmer...
...Clocks to music for TV (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). Says Director Boris Goldovsky of Tangle-wood's opera department: "Bucci provides something which we have missed with most modern composers. The trouble with them when they write something for voice is that they make their singers speak. This boy makes voices sing...
Nick of Time. In Sacramento, Juvenile Officer Robert Dunkeson finally caught a 13-year-old boy heard him admit to 15 burglaries, including five of Dunkeson's house, said: "I had to catch the kid. He was stealing me out of house and home...