Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, runs a strain of innate wisdom, an instinct about people and an unwavering loyalty that makes him the one friend you would turn to, not just because he's a drinking buddy who'll keep you laughing, but because, well, he's a good ole boy...
...1950s, a clerk in a department store refused to let me sip from a water fountain, despite my mother's plea that "he's just a little boy." Later, when my family got its first television set, I was entranced by the ads for Glen Echo amusement park. My mother couldn't really explain why she couldn't take me there. The reason, of course, was that Glen Echo did not admit blacks. Nor did many restaurants, movie theaters and other public facilities...
...rooming house" (read whorehouse) that hadn't had an overnight guest in years. In Stuart, my father went into a hardware store to buy a Thermos bottle. The white clerk asked my dad, a distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What you want, boy?" My father struggled to maintain his dignity as he told the clerk what he wanted. I felt in my gut, for the first time, how hard it had been for black men to preserve their self-respect under a rigid system of white supremacy...
...seem to mind his growling. One reason may be that the company also owns the evening Press-Scimitar (circ. 111,957) and has a Memphis monopoly. Another is that the Commercial Appeal generally finds room on the front page for such beloved standbys as a recent story of a boy and his lost dog, with a picture of the pair reunited...
...thin, brown-haired version of Mickey Rooney, he could not do much about his stature (5 ft. 6 in.). But at 51, Banner has parlayed fast-food franchises into a personal fortune of $25 million. From his headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., he runs 231 Shoney's Big Boy outlets in eleven states. He also owns the 19 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises for central Kentucky and is starting new chains of his own. Most promising: Captain B's restaurants, specializing in seafood. His companies will gross $100 million this year...