Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, touring the rubble of New Haven's Oak Street, stocky, boyish Mayor Lee watched the bulldozers grunt and roar, clearing the last of the city's most infamous slums. Razing was almost completed; masons poured concrete for a new $10 million Southern New England Telephone Co. building; apartments and stores were going up. It was all part of a 42-acre, $40 million public-private redevelopment project, sparked by Lee's successful wangle of $6,600,000 in U.S. grants and loans. Cost to the city: $1,700,000 in cash-plus $3,000 spent...
Perhaps recalling the plentiful publicity that accrued years ago when Oklahoma's stogie-chomping Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray planted chickpeas on the lawn of the gubernatorial mansion, Michigan's boyish Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams staged a cow-milking contest on the front lawn of the statehouse (for Lansing's June Dairy Month). Snuggling up to a Guernsey, Princeton-educated Soapy seized the controls confidently, but could not shift out of neutral, squeezed out fourth in a field of four. Winner: Lansing's Mayor Ralph Crego...
...school "of the second class," middle-aged Bill Mor wonders what to do with a life already half wasted in the chalky smog of history classrooms and hopelessly Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named Rain Carter, who is commissioned to paint the portrait of the school's worldly retired headmaster. She comprises all the values-art, gaiety, wisdom-that have passed...
...will have to be achieved by agreement among the colorful chief delegates: tall, aristocratic Alhaji Ahmadu, the Islamic and potent Sardauna of Sokoto, an Arabian Nights figure in a billowing green turban and red velvet robe, whose Moslem Hausas consider the pagans of the South no better than savages; boyish, chubby-faced Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, one of the shrewdest political minds in Africa and an ardent champion of regional self-government for his own people; scholarly and ambitious Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite of some 3,000,000 Ibo tribesmen in the East...
Attention centered first on Dr. Stig Akerfeldt, a boyish (27), blond biochemist from Stockholm's famed Nobel Institute, who had reported that when a certain chemical is added to a sample of blood serum, it will turn a bright red if the subject has schizophrenia or other severe mental illness. Akerfeldt's method has been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt...