Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have been inconceivable a generation ago: two presidential candidates already dispatched by fatal headlines, several others wounded, a few discouraged from entering. As recently as the 1960s, journalistic convention protected the private lives of politicians except under unusual circumstances. Now any behavior that would earn demerits for a boy scout seems fair game. But is that fair? Last week this trend was prompting some healthy reappraisal that might save campaign '88 from runaway triviality. As James Gannon, editor of the Des Moines Register, puts it: "A lot of respected journalistic guts are saying 'Whoa...
When Charlotte Lowell's husband left home, she turned to her son. "Oh, Bobby," she told him, "it's such a comfort to have a man in the house." The eleven-year-old sharply reminded her, "I am not a man; I am a boy...
Thousands of Americans are now caught up in harvesting empties for profit. Charities, civic clubs and groups like the Boy Scouts regularly go at it. Since March, Dade County, Fla., fire fighters have picked enough cans to raise $4,990 for a burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says...
...highest-ranking officer on hand is James H. Polk, 75, now a horse farmer from El Paso, who retired with four stars after commanding the U.S. Army in Europe from 1967 to '71. His earliest recollections are of horses and Army encampments. He was a small boy, he remembers, living here at Riley, when the bugler blew officers' call at lunchtime one day. His father, a young lieutenant, was on a train two hours later, heading toward Mexico to chase < Pancho Villa with General John J. Pershing's 1916 punitive expedition. "He never had time to change clothes...
Sebastian Rice-Edwards plays sensitive young Bill, a boy meandering his way through the rubble and emotional chaos of war-torn London suburbia. A bit of an imp, but lovable nonetheless, Billy is as attached to his shrapnel collection as to his mother. Hope and Glory traces Bill as he grows out of his shyness, and seven-year-old Rice-Edwards captures the spirit of his character...