Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shirley Temple Show (NBC) began its career this week in The Land of Oz, an imprecise locale which actually seemed to be more the land of Ozzie and Harriet. Comedian Jonathan Winters, however, gave a memorable performance as Lord General Nikidik, fulfilling a confessed Winters' dream from boyhood days when he wanted to become a general (to no one at all, young Johnny would shout repeatedly, "The rest of you are privates"). Agnes Moorehead, a suitably grating witch, all but punctured the screen with her cockney accent, and Sterling Holloway, as Jack Pumpkinhead, cried seeds instead of tears. Hostess...
Concerned by widespread corruption in the government bureaucracy, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had wanted a free, two-party vote. With the Shah's encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls...
James Francis ("Ginger") Coffey has discovered the secret of eternal boyhood. He never faces facts. Born in Dublin "in humble circs" but now a status-seeking New Canadian immigrant, Ginger daily imagines his ship will come in even while he founders at some bar. With a flaming red mustache and a bluff military stance acquired in the Irish Army, Ginger leads his troupes of sentimental illusions and heroic reveries straight into the machine-gun fire of reality...
...Henry Cabot Lodge chose as his U.N. deputy seven years ago was someone he had known since boyhood: James J. (for Jeremiah) Wadsworth. This week, as Lodge got set to hit the campaign trail, James Wadsworth, 55. flew home from Geneva prepared to succeed Lodge at the U.N. for the remaining five months of the Eisenhower Administration...
...Lodge, 58, the vice-presidential nominee, was born a princeling of one of Boston's great Brahmin families. His poet father died when young Henry was seven, and his grandfather, the ferocious, archisolationist old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., took over his education and training. Part of his boyhood was spent in France, and Lodge became completely bilingual. At Harvard he graduated with honors in three years, and his classmates found him a rather stuffy, condescending young man with the good looks of an Apollo† and an undoubted charm-when he chose to turn...