Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Felix Frankfurter, 74, appointed by President Roosevelt in 1939. Vienna-born, came to the U.S. at twelve, worked his way from $4-a-week delivery boy's job into top of the law class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for assorted Government agencies, returned to teach at Harvard in 1914. Even before Roosevelt's first term, Frankfurter exhorted students to seek public service, after 1932 Frankfurter students-"Happy Hot Dogs" -were spotted throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little...
...hard time at the birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand, was mystified and indignant. Unwillingly taking the boy she had registered as Louise, she made no effort to change his legal name, instead...
Last week as the court handed down its decision, the Piessets still adamantly maintained that Viviane was their true child, kept her well out of sight behind drawn shutters. They would be willing to take the boy that the court said was theirs, but only on condition that they could keep the girl. Threatening police action, Mme. Derock was more determined than ever to take possession of her daughter. All over France, passionate parents argued furiously over the rights and justice of the two mothers' cases. But for the little boy who for seven years had lived unwanted under...
...thought that he had "never heard anything more excellent." In Barcelona audiences cheered their approval of the orchestra's classical repertory. For Budapest-born Conductor George Szell, the greatest recognition came in Vienna. where that dean of critics, grumpy old (83) Max Graf, who knew Szell as a boy, voiced one of his rare, muted raves. "The sounds," he said, "were good indeed...
...country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried by the boy's "hacking cough." At just about every crisis in his life, Will was able to find kindly acquaintances who would similarly ease his path by lending him money, giving him free room and board, finding him jobs...