Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked up the leader of a harmonica troupe. One audition and he got the word: "You stink." A few weeks later he was signed on for a tour of the Paramount vaudeville circuit-then the boss of the show came to rehearsal. The voice rumbled across the theater: "This boy stinks." In retrospect, says Adler, "there seems to have been a certain unhappy unanimity of feeling about...
...Thinking Boy's Filter. This week, plump with ads and solid with facts, the four regional editions of the Farm Journal dropped heavily into country mailboxes across the land. "Hold wool for higher prices," it briskly warned. "Finish selling wheat. Prices are at their peak." As always, the features were gingham-crisp; "New Pay-Offs with Plastic Mulch," "How to Sell Bulls for 30% More," and "Need Bees? Make a Bed for 'Em." The farmer's wife got a new recipe for Danish raspberry pie, and the farmer's daughter learned that if she had light...
...were weighted by heavy-jawed Sir Ernest ("The Boss'') Shackleton, who in 1909 had gone to within 97 miles of the South Pole. Shackleton had one trouble: he was a towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain's upper crust-and chose the polar route for the expedition...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.), starring Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton, in a superior version of The Browning Version, Terence Rattigan's sentimental play about an embittered British schoolmaster and the little boy who gives him back his self-respect...
...Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. A lively swearing of the green by Ireland's latest IRAte young...