Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abilene, Texas, police saw a car being driven backwards several blocks, stopped three Hardin-Simmons University coeds who said they had borrowed a boy friend's car, had driven it much farther than they had planned to. were now driving it in reverse to back some of the mileage off the speedometer...
...there he was, all grinning and friendly, holding out his arm generously so people could almost touch him. It was the Beantown's golden boy! He had on a simple green tie, and held one arm around his nice young wife, who sat right up on the back of the seat with him. Someone yelled, "Our next President," and everyone screamed and clapped...
...Borstal Boy, Behan...
...tall (6 ft. 6 in.), solemn, 17-year-old boy said a few polite words to the President of the U.S., then gave him the lapel pin worn by 40 finalists in the 18th annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Minutes later, unflustered by the company he had just kept, John Seymour Letcher Jr. sat jackknifed in a bus seat, lost in a scientific diagram he was sketching. Next day Letcher, who had won his Washington trip by building a particle accelerator, learned that he had won again. His prize: the $7,500 top award in the Westinghouse contest...
...such diverse works as The Chick, a raucous new recording that spoofs rock 'n' roll and pop records, and Ages of Man, Sir John Gielgud's new readings from Shakespeare. Listening to Johnny Desmond's recording of Bye Bye Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade, once cracked: "All this business of ffrr and FDS is just slogans, like 'It Floats,' for Ivory soap. Do you know what...