Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known as a boy...
Career: Joined Philadelphia's solid Drexel & Co. investment house, sold securities, rose to partner in 1940, became a civic wheelhorse in Philadelphia's Associated Hospital Service, Child Guidance Clinic, Boy Scouts, Navy League, also served as a private in the National Guard. Commissioned in Navy intelligence in 1942, he sailed in major campaigns (Southern France, Philippines, Okinawa, Iwo Jima), performed gallantly (two Bronze Stars), was mustered out as a commander after 42 months, rose to captain in the Reserve and retired...
...professional educator," Dean Simpson said last week. "But I do know an educated man when I see one, and I shall try to see that we turn out that kind of student-namely, one free of cant and humbug. The ordinary American boy who will only make a million in later life, the ordinary girl who wants a husband as well as a diploma, are as welcome here as the Quiz...
...youth Frank James Gavin had as big a hero as a railroad man could wish. Hired on as a $15-a-month office boy for the Great Northern Railway, Gavin went to work for James Jerome Hill, the line's pioneering founder who flung the Great Northern across the western top of the U.S. with such impatience that he once left his snug private car to help a section crew dig the locomotive out of a snowbank...
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year-old boy...