Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candler Canfield was less amused when she herself was arrested on a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice (she had lied in giving Boy Friend Bradshaw an alibi for the dynamiting). Said she to the McClellan committee: "There was a state policeman stood there for a while watching us, and after him Detective Welch came in to see we didn't leave the room, and after him [Detective] Wojciechowski came in, and since this was early in the morning and I was not allowed in the ladies' room, and it was 2 o'clock before we were...
Hard-working George Tames, 38, broke into newspaper photography as a 19-yearold copy boy at TIME'S Washington bureau, where he learned to click a shutter by watching LIFE photographers and asking the right questions. He became a full-fledged "head-hunter," as the trade refers to a photographer who specializes in candid head-and-shoulders shots, and joined the Times's Washington staff in 1945. Winner of more than a dozen awards in White House News Photographers' Association contests, shiny-domed Cameraman Tames shares the President's respect for straight, unretouched pictures that tell...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
Twelve good men and true, with a boy's life in their hands. They take a vote: eleven for conviction and one-the architect-for acquittal. "Boyoboy," says the garageman, "there's always...
Taps for George. The special quality of the book lies in the character of George McGough (pronounced McGoo), archetype of all overprivileged rebels without a cause. His doctrine is personal survival. They're out to get us; boy, one and all ... They fill the air with boomerangs. It's up to us to see they miss, no matter how." His personal style is unmistakable, reaching in places to the wonderful idiosyncrasy of J. D. Salinger's hero of The Catcher in the Rye. He has youth's uncertain arrogance ("Girls drool over me") and its superstitions...