Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
...mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here's my boy that jumped the track," Roy said. "Whenever I spoke to boys who had been in trouble, I asked them to think why. I made them think about themselves and about why they did those crazy acts. Now I have to ask Dave...
Died. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 51, Yale '32, 5-ft.7-in., 144-lb. football quarterback, dropkicker, All-America; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Yale's Little Boy Blue scampered to fame against Army in 1929, outshining the great Chris Cagle, scoring three touchdowns and kicking three extra points as Yale overcame a 13-0 disadvantage to win 21-13. His playing career never left the high plane of its beginning. In his senior year Harvard entered the Yale game undefeated. After 57 minutes of hard, scoreless play, Captain Albie Booth took a snap from center, dropped...
...BORSTAL BOY (372 pp.)-Brendan Behan-Knopf...
...season drew to a climax, the fame of Yale's "Little Boy Blue" spread. Fans all over the nation awaited the clash between the 5 ft., 7 in., 145-1b. sophomore sensation and Harvard's Barry Wood...