Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1950, when Al was still a heavy-weight-at-large hanging around the Frankfurt PX, he got to know some German girls with Negro babies. He heard the bitter stories of the Negerkinder. He heard about the little boy who, taunted by a ring of white children crying, "Du schwarzer Neger," answered them bitterly: "Be happy...
...indigestible filling in the black-and-white sandwich," as it has been called. Africa's Asian minority poses problems of its own. They showed most plainly ten years ago in Durban, South Africa, when in the course of a minor scuffle an angry Indian merchant pushed an African boy's head through a shop window and gave him superficial cuts. Passersby spread the word exaggeratedly: an Indian has killed an African. That night Africans began attacking every Hindu in sight. Next day they burned homes, looted stores, clubbed men, women and children to death, raped girls and hurled...
...also has a tendency to let the shot drop a little too low just before the throw." But he speaks of Long's ultimate capabilities with awe: "If I say 70 feet, people will think I'm crazy. But if I don't say it, this boy will probably...
Scholar Waterhouse, a chunky, sandy-haired young man, admits to a complete lack of talent in art and athletics but gets straight A's in everything else. Physics Teacher Morris Hoffman says the boy is "lightning fast in his thinking; a test that takes most students 40 minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter...
Talking sleepily, the students file in. The room fills; one boy jumps to a stage, calls out, "Let's go." Stiffly at first, the class waggles fingers, wrists, arms and spines in a ragged ballet of calisthenics, then switches to vocal knee-bends: OHO, OHO; AHA, AHA; ZZZZHH, ZZZZHH ; UMPAH, UMPAH; OOOOH, OOOOH. The personage in whose honor the morning rites are performed is abrupt, autocratic, rumpled Professor Paul Baker, 47, head of Baylor University's department of dramatics. In the judgment of Actor Charles Laughton, an old friend, Baker is "crude, arrogant, irritating, nuts and a genius...