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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tantan) has been scotching evil since 1929, now appears in dozens of papers and magazines across Europe. A Tintin comic book sells 250,000 copies a week; Tintin hard-cover book sales have reached 8,000,000. French stores sell Tintin soap, underwear and pajamas; null heads of the boy and his dog disconcertingly survey Brussels from the top of a nine-story building built by Herge's publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sweetness & Blight | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...thwarting jewelry thieves, foiling dope smugglers-that both King Baudouin and French Novelist Francoise (A Certain Smile) Sagan are listed as fans. Tintin has made a millionaire of Herge (real name: Georges Remi), 51, who was a schoolboy when he started to draw Tintin's precursor as a boy spy during the German occupation of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sweetness & Blight | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...sets, animated ads). Sine's more innocent drawings include murders -a wife eating her husband's brains after dicing his skull like a melon. His really mordant streak is reserved for legless cripples who leave their carts outside Moslem temples beside the shoes of other visitors and boy scouts who thumb rides from Christ as he walks with his cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sweetness & Blight | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...lout in the ninth-grade "adjustment class" threatened to "fix" Allen for waking him up in class. Other teachers called the boy psychotic; one predicted: "That kid will kill somebody some day. We hope to God it isn't a teacher." Said the dean of boys: "You should stop and consider the boy's condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undercover Teacher | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...backslapping. But what of seasons to come? Let me lose the opener or a couple of other games next fall, and then watch how I'm blasted." An All-America end for three years running in his undergraduate days, Bennie is a gentle, unorthodox type who thinks a boy should pick a school and then play football, and this is contrary to recruiting doctrine these days in football's big time. This year Michigan managed only two victories (both by a single point) in its first seven games. Beset by injuries to key players and hanged in effigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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