Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accession of the new Conservative Prime Minister, who led his party to the most stunning electoral upset in Canada's history, ended 22 years of Liberal rule (TIME, June 17). It was also the fulfillment of a storybook promise. As a strong-willed boy of ten, he announced an ambition that shaped his life: "I'm going to be Premier of Canada...
...well shaft at Manorville, L.I. (TIME, May 27). One of that gallant band was the Eastport volunteer fire department's physician. Dr. Joseph H. Kris. Called in by police, he stood by for almost 24 hours, supervising the piping of oxygen to the trapped boy...
...week after the rescue. Dr. Kris -a former G.P. who now specializes in anesthesiology-visited Benny at Bayview Hospital until the boy recovered from a touch of pneumonia. He was photographed with Benny and widely praised for having saved the boy's life. Last week Dr. Kris, 58, rudely shocked the U.S., which tends to hero-worship its doctors, by sending Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hooper Sr. a bill for professional services. The Hoopers make $5,460 a year, he as a highway department truck driver, she as a telephone operator. Amount of the bill...
...other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
...Louise Werner. Her father was a wealthy industrialist from Milwaukee, his father a comfortably fixed chemical engineer from Wyncote, Pa. When it came to talk of marriage, there was trouble-but not the kind a faithful moviegoer would expect. Industrialist Arnold J. Werner liked his daughter's college-boy suitor; the boy's family was the one to object. The reason, they said, was that Lutheran Werner was leading Leland away from his Roman Catholic faith...