Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Osborne, communications are both occupation and preoccupation. He started in the business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
...scramble became even madder. Connecticut State Chairman John Bailey, who had been using Governor Abraham Ribicoff as a Kennedy messenger boy, sent word to Carmine De Sapio: "Tell Carmine he can get out of this with something. He can make this one−if he'll go now." Carmine agreed (he has never forgotten that Estes and the Kefauver committee in 1950 made him out an old pal of Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn...
...rocket was plainly no 'toy. Jimmy, a quiet, confident boy, is in the top eight of his class at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., holds one of the school's major scholarships. When Army experts tore down Jimmy's rocket−planned to be fired by combining liquid nitrogen, gasoline and liquid oxygen−they were amazed at his skill. "It's surprisingly close to several motors already developed,"said John Womble, deputy chief of Redstone's Rocket Development Laboratory. "We found the fundamental approach clever and admirable...
Finchden's 40 boys have an average age of 17, come from every sort of home and background. Some are rich, some poor, quite a few come from what would seem to be normal families. One boy was the victim of an alcoholic schoolmaster who would sometimes tie his hands behind his back, force him to eat until he vomited, and then refuse to allow him to change his soiled clothes. One boy had been to 17 schools by the time he was 16. Others were regularly beaten or mistreated by their parents or foster parents. A good many...
Kings & Jeweled Chains. They come with a variety of symptoms. One lived in a dreamworld of knights and kings. Another, who had been a model child, suddenly went berserk, smashed every bit of glass in his home, disappeared for four days. A few had threatened suicide; one boy had stolen his mother's jewelry. One arrived wearing five vests, another brought 100 ties, still another came wearing a jeweled chain about his neck. One packed a loaded revolver, another brought along a stack of books on psychology. A few had religious manias, and one had the habit of setting...