Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club, he intimated that Wimbledon Champ Hoad was not yet ready for big-time tennis (TIME, July 22). Pancho was right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind...
Fortnight ago, as the church was being consecrated, the thin, flat paintings caused a national flutter. Parishioners gaped up at Jesus as a boy in a red sweater, Mary in a black dress and black silk stockings carrying a shopping bag, Joseph in a Trilby hat and yellow zippered jerkin, John in rolled-up shirtsleeves and corduroy slacks, and Peter in a grey flannel suit...
Once upon a time, in the magic realm of California, there was a grown-up heady boy named Walt Disney who set out to create the happiest place on earth. So he went into his countinghouses and to his moneylenders, and he collected millions of dollars. Then he ordered his royal artists and carpenters to build a whimsical wonderland of spaceships to the moon and Mark Twain river boats, of mechanical monkeys and bobbing hippos, of moated castles, wilderness forts and make-believe jungles. All the children, young and old, came to visit this happy place, called Disneyland. And Walt...
Last week, as Disneyland celebrated its second birthday, Walt Disney was indeed the world's biggest boy with the world's biggest toy. By bus, car and helicopter, on anniversary day close to 25,000 visitors trooped to his 60-acre playground at Anaheim, 23 miles south of Los Angeles -and emptied their pockets to see how it worked. The average visitor plunked down $2.72 for rides and admission, $2 for food, another 18? for souvenirs-Disneyland pennants, maps, Donald Duck caps, etc. All told this year, with attendance running 11% ahead of 1956, the turnstiles will clink...
Constancy. In London, a judge termed Grace Bowler, 71, a "most ungrateful" wife to husband John, 70 (they were married in 1910), and granted him a divorce after hearing testimony that she had carried a hot meal half a mile faithfully every evening for 30 years to her boy friend...