Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's Hitler (last year's MAN) : Here is a boy who is long overdue. Cannot TIME bring him out again, and finish the job? It might atone for some of the innocents you have...
Morning's at Seven (by Paul Osborn; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). Two seasons ago the Broadway critics threw their hats in the air over Playwright Osborn's On Borrowed Time, a deft piece of flimsy-whimsey about a small boy, an old man, and Death kept at bay in an apple tree. When Osborn's Morning's at Seven opened last week, many more critical thumbs went down than hats went up. All the same, Morning's at Seven is as much better than On Borrowed Time as butter is than margarine...
...much-curlycued 18901sh houses, and it tells of people who moved into them when they were built. There are four sisters of 65 and upwards, three of them with husbands of 67 or more, the fourth an old maid. Youth is represented by a mama's boy of 40 who has been keeping company for more than two lustrums with a fading moron of 39. To add to its handicaps, the play has scarcely a shred of plot...
...paced the marble floor as nervously as any expectant fathers. They were awaiting results of the vote for the new officers of the New York County Medical Society. Never before in the Society's history had candidates campaigned on two opposing platforms. The baby had always been a boy. But this time nobody could be quite sure, for in last week's election there were two tickets: Progressive and Conservative. Unprecedented had been the labor pains; incalculable was the result...
Dick Knight was a Texas boy, with a big body, big head, and big ideas about getting on in the world. He went north to study law at Harvard. In 1924, armed with a degree and a recommendation from Felix Frankfurter (now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), he headed for Manhattan. Two things he wanted. One was money. The other: to be known and admired by everybody who was anybody in the Big City...