Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When all the Colaborer lands are plowed and planted, George Sutton wants to start other enterprises and funnel their proceeds to other missions deeper into the backlands. "I'm liable to do some Bible-pounding myself,'' he says, "and boy, they sure could use encouragement. I saw a lad here trying to read a Portuguese Bible-upside down. It's a shame, when you think of folks at home who know how to read but never even open the Bible...
Later the same week, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest will open, and both will be presented during the first month. In the fifth week, the group will add George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, followed by Othello and Sam and Bella Spewack's Boy Meets Girl...
...from Curitiba came Anthropology Professor Jose Loureiro of the University of Parana, bringing Koi with him. He had studied every reference to the mysterious Xetás and spent long, frustrating hours with the boy, who refused to answer most questions about his people...
Rickover's Rakeover. With a seaman's instinct for omens, Commander Anderson early spotted his future. As a boy, in Bakerville, Tenn., he and a playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with...
...script, like the fairy tale, tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There...