Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forbidding old brick building on a hill overlooking Glenwood, Iowa, a trim little man of 67 directed the well-drilled 30-voice choir. Conductor Mayo Buckner is a versatile musician; he sings bass, plays the violin, piccolo, clarinet, flute, bass horn, cornet and saxophone. Though almost entirely self-taught, "Buck" is good enough to have played in the town band. He is also a journeyman printer. His IQ of 120 is well above the national average. Yet for the last 59 years Mayo Buckner has been an inmate of Glenwood State School (for the mentally retarded...
...happened? From musty records, school officials found that Mayo Buckner was brought in to the state school by his mother in October 1898. (It was snowing, Buck remembers, and the train they rode from Lenox, 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was lit by coal-oil lamps.) Answering a questionnaire, Mrs. Buckner conceded that Mayo was truthful, tenderhearted, had a good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because...
...young man, Buck realized that he did not belong at Glenwood, and asked for parole. His requests were ignored. Free to go into town when he wanted, Buck could have simply gone over the hill. But the institutional pattern had been stamped too deep in him. Five years ago some rough-and-ready tests of inmates showed that Buck was far above the "moderate imbecile" level at which he had been graded on admission. But he was also judged too old to make a change...
Coach Curran plans to start Porter at center. Starting guards will be co-Captain Paul Kallios (5-9) and Ned Larkin (5-11), who averaged 14 points as a sophomore last season. Co-Captain Don Akerson (6-1) and Buck Adanczyk (6-0) will be at forward...
Jack Lemmon is the hero-a buck private and bigtime operator in a unit waiting to be shipped home from Europe after World War II. TV's Ernie Kovacs is the villain-the unit's second-in-command, who is bound and determined, as soon as he is mustered out, to run for the U.S. Senate. In his first movie role, Comic Kovacs is approximately terrific, the funniest new funnyface that has been seen on the screen in years. His sneeringly ingratiating personality has all the morbid fascination of a mentholated cigar...