Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Click. Click. Click. Off North Carolina, Worthington was manning an echo-sounding receiver on a regular project when he heard a loud hammering. "Cut out the racket," he yelled. "I can't hear a damn thing." After everyone on board lad indignantly denied hammering, a herd of six sperm whales slowly broke water near...
...night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray's indulgent brother (Anthony Franciosa). a bouncer in a B-girl bar, understands too well; on Don's perennial promise of "quitting tomorrow.'' Tony has foolishly shot his savings keeping the lad aloft...
...less curious lad might have let himself go to intellectual seed on a diet of comic books and TV westerns. But when seven-year-old Bruce Frankel of Interlaken, N.J. was kept home from school last fall with a kidney infection, he took to watching television quiz shows. One day he announced: "Presidents are my category." He began reading up on the men of the White House, with all the enthusiasm of a young Harry Truman...
...sitter") of the state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy...
...Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just can't avoid...