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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon afterward, Bruna Nofri was surprised by a sudden visit from Mayor Cerofolino, who came panting into her home to tell her that her son had been injured in an automobile accident. At the mayor's promise to take her to the injured boy, Bruna frantically hurried out with him. But instead of finding her son in the lonely cottage to which Cerofolino took her, she was set upon by the brawny Communist, stripped of her clothes and photographed naked. "Get that husband of yours back into the party," warned Cerofolino, "or everybody in town will see these pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Naked Truth | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

PERSONALITY: Brown-haired, blue-eyed, meditative, Burney is married (two children), likes to read American history, plays golf in the mid-80s, enjoys swimming with his family at the pool of their apartment 'house in Alexandria, Va. An active joiner of medical organizations, he enjoys working with Boy Scout groups, helps them in health and safety work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Surgeon General | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...when he was still a schoolboy in Los Angeles and remarked, "Here, go make something of yourself.'' But. says Jimmy sadly, "I just couldn't cut the mustard. So then my grandmother, she bought me a uke and said, 'Jimmy, try this thing,' and boy I really cut the mustard!" Three years ago Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cutting the Mustard | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Copley became head of his family upon the death of his stepfather, a mediocre mezzotint artist and dancing teacher who had barely introduced the boy to art. To help support his mother and half brother, Copley had to translate this bowing acquaintance into professional skill. His response to the challenge was heroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: JOHN COPLEY: Painter by Necessity | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Allowances and earnings give the teenage boy an average weekly income of $8.96, compared to only $2.41 a dozen years ago. In some cases, the youngsters have more uncommitted pocket money than their parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bobby-Soxers' Gallup | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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