Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck driver several months ago, she has been the family breadwinner, and now she is out of work. It took considerable agonizing, she admits, before she and Linn decided to spend $35 for a toy truck coveted by their son Craig. "If you've ever seen a little boy's eyes light up like they did when he saw it in the store window," says Karen, "you'd suffer a lot yourself before denying it to him. The rest of Christmas is going to have to be love and kisses, but that's easy...
...Mafia. The files make clear that the Warren Commission failed abysmally to pursue FBI leads linking Oswald's own assassin, Jack Ruby, to the Mob. Ruby had ties to mobsters in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, and even, as a boy, to the infamous Al Capone. Nor did the commission seem impressed that Ruby, twelve days before he shot Oswald, asked a notorious Teamster racketeer from Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that...
...owns "radio's most distinctive adenoids," as Mike Royko puts it, broke into journalism as a copy boy for the old evening American (it died in 1974 as Chicago Today) and rose to become political editor before working in Washington for Hearst and Newsweek. He was a regular panelist on CBS's Face the Nation for nearly five years, then returned to his home town. After becoming WBBM-TV news director, he switched to the network's AM radio outlet in 1968. Snide and thunderous on the air, Madigan at home in his lakefront high-rise...
...play's final battle scene-in which Hotspur and Hal engage-it is Falstaff the comic spirit who steals the victory, a bit too successfully, quite literally from the jaws of death. As the two Hals meet, Falstaff staggers in to warn his friend that he will "find no boy's play here." But right on Falstaff's heels in Hotspur's ally, the Earl of Douglas. Seeing him, Falstaff drops to the ground and plays dead. Despite the ensuing fairly well-staged duel and despite the later blocking of Hal exactly between the now dead Hotspur and the fake...
...strode into that world from the fruited plains of Velva, N. Dak., where his father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where...