Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I worked with Ernie for five years on the Washington News, and I can testify to his wondrous hypochondria. The standing office gag was to ask Ernie every hour on the hour how he felt. He had only one reply through the years: "Terrible!" And I believe the kid meant it. He always looked it. Congratulations. A really wonderful piece. LEONARD HALL New York City...
...young marine's leg. He cried a little bit when we told him we had to do it. But next morning when I asked him how he felt, he grinned 'Okay! There's not so much of me to hurt now.' There was another kid who was in extremis when we brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away and he had a big hunk of his chest blown out. He pulled out of it somehow. When we got to talking to him we found that his attitude...
Divorced. Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 29, in the U.S. after combat duty with the Army Air Forces in India (TIME. March 27); by Flower Parry Coogan, 22, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after three years of marriage (including two years of separation); in Hollywood...
Lady from Michigan. Mrs. George M. Dewey, 66, an energetic housewife of Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) did not mention 'the fact that the home-town folks used to refer to her only child, Tom, as "that smart Dewey kid." (Father George died in 1927.) Sprightly Widow
...English A themes and football program. He had gone to too many farewell parties, smashed too many beer bottles in fireplaces, seen too many people off at South Station. The inevitable pattern of "Gee, I hate to leave the old place;" a pause, and then, "well, so long kid, see you," the over hearty hand-shake and the quick turning away, had begun to seem almost indecent...