Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth to light in what turns out to be a sensitive, almost unearthly love of brother for sister. Their rapturous relationship was doomed; the sister has been killed by the cruder man whom she married but to whom she had never given herself. At the trial of truth, the boy, his Conquistador parents, and the husband declare themselves before a quiet, frozen chorus of townspeople, baring themselves in extraordinary speeches that are nearly soliloquies...
Despite the upsurge in electronic toys, manufacturers are only beginning the new age. For next year, one company promised to have a junior-size Univac ready. And the time seemed not far off when every little boy and girl could climb aboard a $1.98 rocket for the moon...
...poor little rich boy there are some gold-plated gadgets. Mystic River Sales has a junior fire engine, "The Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...
William Maxwell's What Every Boy Should Know is perhaps the most moving and wryly humorous story in the book. Set in a Midwestern small town, it tells of young Edward Gellert's stumbling entry into puberty and the total failures of communication between the very young and the rest of the world...
...former Illinois Governor was in Cambridge visiting his grandson, Adlai E. Stevenson IV, who was four weeks old yesterday, the boy's parents, Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, 3L and his wife Nancy, and his two other sons, Borden Stevenson 1L, and John Fell Stevenson...