Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Corsica, the first stop on the exile road, Mohammed brought along a very special one-"as a witness of the sincere friendship which His Majesty entertains for General de Gaulle." Shortly before the royal plane landed, it radioed Bastia airport that aboard the plane was a local boy, Ignace Cacciaguerra. a French army sergeant who had been captured by Moroccan tribesmen two years ago. The King's men negotiated for months to win the sergeant's release from the tribesmen. Summoned hastily, Cacciaguerra's mother was at the airport to greet...
...Wallace, Mich. Lutheran minister, Carl Lindstrom aspired to be a concert pianist, gave that up as a boy when a dislocation permanently stiffened one arm. He left Beloit College for economic reasons, after one year, wandered through jobs on small-town papers to the Hartford Times in 1917 as a copyreader. A self-taught linguist, Lindstrom makes nightly entries in diaries in six languages, frequently translates news stories into Italian, French, German, Spanish or Swedish just for the exercise. He reads multilingually and voraciously-75 books a year. He takes pride in a connoisseur's cellar of fine wines...
...generation's vibrant distortions and vivid abstractions transfigured the U.S. art world, museum directors began to shuffle his canvases into cellar crypts, and his name vanished from the critics' scripts. Benton did not help his cause by denning a museum director as "a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait...
Died. George Antheil, 58, U.S. composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the '205, George Antheil of Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce...
...wonder that by this time (he was 16) Rothstein had won the respect and almost the affection of Tammany Hall's East Side boss, "Big Tim" Sullivan. Rothstein went to work for Big Tim as a kind of errand boy, and began to show the wisdom he was later to express so clearly: "If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best...