Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point when he banged his right hand repeatedly on the table, counting the 38 times that Chapin had stabbed the baby sitter and the 23 times he had stabbed the child. "Imagine doing this 38 times," he said. "He slaughtered this little girl, he stabbed her, then the little boy, and then went back and stabbed her again. He certainly acted like a madman that night." To Wertham there was no doubt that Chapin had suffered, at the time of the crime, from schizophrenia -"a malignant disease, the cancer of the mind"-and that he had not known the meaning...
...Wertham's say-so, three members of the council reversed themselves and the body voted, 6-3, for commutation. Concluded Wertham: to electrocute Chapin would have been no deterrent to others because "it was a crazy crime and no juvenile on the street associates himself with this boy...
...India, where Horatio Alger sagas are as rare as Hindu beefeaters, one of the rare exceptions is the career of Mohan Oberoi, India's Conrad Hilton and a onetime farm boy from the Punjab who started out in 1921 without a rupee to his name. He now owns a $20 million interest in Oberoi Hotels (India) Ltd., a string of 13 hotels, and a luscious beach guest house on the Bay of Bengal that has been host alike to nabobs, maharajas and Socialist Jawaharlal Nehru. Last week at 56, Hotelman Oberoi was constructing in New Delhi Asia...
...rebel, in this case, is the maladjusted daughter of divorced parents. At 15, the youngster visits her remarried mother (Ginger Rogers) for the first time in eight years. Her mother and stepfather (Michael Rennie) sympathetically figure that the hostile, resentful girl is merely a little bundle of misery. The boy next door is less sympathetic. "Am I losing my charge," he wonders aloud, after she holds him at arm's length, "to be turned down by a creep?" In the language of her contemporaries, she is a square who wants to fit into a world that is round...
...bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper's Bazaar, witty Playwright Jean Kerr (wife of New York Drama Critic Walter Kerr) gets a lot of certain laughs out of A Certain Smile, in a spoof that expresses the quintessence of Saganism...