Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave the plane," said Bush, "didn't even stop the engines." Almost as soon as Bush's PBY had put down on the strip, he said, a truck appeared and delivered the Chinese boy. Several hours later, Bush, Sullivan and their wide-eyed passenger landed in the water off Macao, and the boy was handed over to a power-operated black Chinese junk that came up alongside the plane...
Back in Hong Kong, a few hours later, Bush and friend once more met the beautiful Chinese girl and the tearfully grateful father of the boy. "He was," said Bush, "a clean-cut, distinguished-looking man," though they never got his name. The father offered the two men $10,000 apiece, which they both said they refused, but they did accept $800 gold wristwatches appropriately engraved in Chinese: ". . . You will be remembered forever." Then Bush went on to Tokyo, Sullivan back to Bangkok...
Though Portuguese authorities in Macao denied that any such flight had ever occurred and other officials expressed extreme skepticism, both Bush and Sullivan stuck to their stories. Their watches were all they had as proof. Naturally, they said, they could not produce the father, the boy or the beautiful girl...
...Sunday in 1826, a penniless youth of 19 from Bakersfield, Vt. appeared at Boston's fashionable Old South Church. The ushers looked askance at his homespun clothes and refused to find him a seat. Last week Boston felt differently about the Green Mountain boy": the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, named in his honor and originally endowed from his estate, put on a high-toned medical symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of its benefactor's birth. The facts that Brigham once peddled oysters from a wheelbarrow and was arrested for selling liquor illegally were little noted...
...special kind of courage on the part of the impromptu social workers who man the camp to win either the confidence or the compliance of these child gangsters. Threatened with a knifing by a Wolf, good, kindly Eric holds out both hands and is viciously slashed, after which the boy throws the knife at Eric's feet and collapses wailing to the ground. What enables the staff to go on is the knowledge that the children have been more sinned against than sinning. There is the little boy who has never been heard to utter a word, another youngster...