Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about, fishing for details as if they were really whales. His most ambitious pictures are sometimes the least successful, being too finicky and insistent. But Roasted Chestnuts bids fair to rival Wyeth's famed Young America (TIME, July 16, 1951) as a national icon. Young America shows a boy in G.I. castoffs riding a gaudy bicycle across a limitless plain. Roasted Chestnuts gives new depth to the romance. It looks like the same boy, grown to gangly youth. He stands light and tall beside his homemade chestnut stove, at the edge of a bare, wintry highway, awaiting...
...sure to have one thing in common with the old one: the proprietor will be a candidate-in-good-standing for membership in the Men's Auxiliary of the W.C.T.U. Jim Cronin has never touched a drop, and probably never will. "When I was a boy they told me something in Latin about moderation. And I haven't been weaned from milk...
...scarcely broke stride. "A dirty deal," he cried to one newsman, and threatened to back up his complaint by playing his much-publicized tape. "People may want to make a sacred cow out of this boy Elliott, but they'll want to hang him, yessir, hang him, when I tell the true story on this deal." But at week's end Leo made plans to leave Australia. The tape, he explained lamely, was in Tokyo, "so how could I play it here...
...Eyeful for Auntie. Auntie got an eyeful. Army Secretary Stevens looked "about as dangerous as an eagle scout leading his first patrol." Roy Cohn "looks like a boy who has had a letter sent home from school about him, and has come back with his elders to get the thing straightened out." As for the duel between McCarthy and Army Counsel Joseph Welch, "Mr. Welch proceeds at the measured pace of the minuet, with frequent, courtly bows. Senator McCarthy favors the tarantella, moving almost faster than the human eye can follow...
...fields around the village of Sotto il Monte (Beneath the Mountain), eight miles from the Lombardy town of Bergamo. Like his brothers and sisters, Angelo grew up to the life of a farmer-"At the age of ten." the 86-year-old church bell ringer remembered last week, "that boy worked in the fields with the sobriety of a grown...