Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD, RUN FREE. The trouble with most matinee movies is that they often seem made by children rather than for them. Run Wild is a happy exception, a fondly and meticulously rendered parable about an autistic English boy (Mark Lester) and an almost magical white colt...
...Beauty Boy-reading Plato so divine! O, dark, oh fair . . ."A melodramatic opening for a short, story, but consider the plot: the colored golf champion of Chicago, who reads Plato, loses a leg under a moving train and finally grows it back in Heaven. A magazine fiction editor might reach for a rejection slip were it not for the byline: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The unpublished "Dearly Beloved," a forerunner of the black-is-beautiful genre, was discovered among a collection of Fitzgerald's papers at the Princeton University Library, and is included in the first number of a schol...
...solving the national trash problem, Reynolds is offering $200 a ton for the discarded aluminum cans that now cheapen U.S. parks, beaches and roadsides. In Miami, Reynolds is collecting 1,500 lbs. of cans a month through Goodwill Industries. In Los Angeles, it is getting ten times that from Boy Scouts, and other profit-minded collectors, who are paid half-a-cent per can. By melting down those cans, Reynolds "mines" reusable aluminum...
...true?. . . Is he dead? . . . Four times in the head, huh? . . . Who shot him? . . . You did? . . . Now get hold of yourself, dear. Why did you do it? . . . Messin' with another woman, huh? . . . Did you catch 'em in bed or something? . . . Were they naked? . . . What did your boy friend do for a livin'? . . .A laborer, huh? O.K., the squad car will be right there. Goodbye...
Composers, directors and conductors from Santa Fe to New York are consistent Reardon admirers-which is fairly remarkable for a Manhattan-born boy who started out to be a bank president. After studying business administration in college for three days, Reardon switched to music, "because those kids were much more fun. I tried to be a pianist," he recalls, "but my hands sweat when I'm nervous, and when your hands sweat as a pianist, forget it. It's like Niagara Falls." He also experimented with composition, but was swiftly urged by his teacher to take up singing...