Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finish, sets off bombs to indicate the number of the winner's lane. The name of the man is Mike Bogo. A 300-lb. Poughkeepsie barkeeper, he applied for and was long ago awarded the job because he had contracted a passion for playing with firecrackers during his boyhood in Italy. Last week, for the first time in his career as bomber for the regatta, Barkeeper Bogo let his passion get the best of him. When the race was over, he set off five bombs, to show that Cornell, rowing in the fifth lane, had won the race. Five...
...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...
...music, a sentimentalist whose place is in the parlor. Chopin acquires great stature when played by great musicians. An unreserved admirer is British Pianist William Murdoch who this week tells Chopin's story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those of most composers. His parents were not rich but neither were they poor. They realized his genius but they refused to exploit him. Trouble developed after he attempted to make his own way in the world. Audiences were accustomed...
Smalltowner. For Robert Houghwout Jackson, 43, the Mellon hearings meant a maiden appearance in the national spotlight. He appeared to dislike it. Only last year his boyhood friend, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, plucked him from a prosperous but relatively obscure private & corporation practice in small Jamestown, N. Y. to be general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed...
...Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth's Companioner...