Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groups who own much property in the red-light areas, Rees-Davies had interviewed some 250 prostitutes, concluded that what drove the vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his office in a Rolls-Bentley, asked his help in freeing her boy friend, who had been charged as a pimp. She said that she earned $17,000 a year and paid no income tax because "it has all been paid by those who give me presents...
From Fanatics to Families. In less than 25 years, skiing has been transformed from an eccentric practice pursued by a handful of fanatic, chilblained young men to the U.S.'s fastest-growing outdoor winter sport. Today, anybody skis-corporation president and office boy, college student and secretary, parents and children. It is no longer a pastime for the well-heeled who could afford to go to Europe to learn. The skiing establishment at Aspen, Colo, is a typical example of what the sport has added to the face of the U.S. A broken-down mining settlement as late...
...when he wants something from them, Cushing can display a formidable charm, and a determination that is awesome. But Alec Cushing had a certain rudeness about him from the beginning. "He was a beautiful baby," recalls his older sister, Mrs. Lily Cushing Boyd. "He was also the most determined boy you ever saw. Whenever people came up and went itchykoo at him, Alexander would lie back and bark like a sea lion." He was born to wealth. His grandfather, Robert M. Cushing, was an old Boston tea merchant. His father was a talented painter, died when Alec was four. Young...
...also the wry tone of his work on such topics as frustrated love in Greenwich Village, the H-bomb tests, and psychosomatic illness. Many of Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power of all kinds," says Feiffer. "I'm against people who use their views and authority as a ploy against others...
...show is already approaching the ratings of later-rising Dave Garroway's Today. Its 47-state audience now includes thousands of high school students, housewives, plumbers, executives, servicemen and even 500 San Quentin cons who happily find that physics does not a prison make. One 14-year-old boy on a Colorado ranch races forth before the show to catch it on his school TV set miles away. When the show conflicted with their devotions, the sisters in a Midwest convent switched their Mass time by special permission of the Mother House...