Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once a lad from Exeter ventured to ask me, Where did Handball originate? Why, I said, the most neolithic of our ancestors could hardly have resisted the impulse to bounce the nearest spheroid off the nearest rock face. If you had given him a racket, he would have burned...
...most popular of Czechoslovak films, and it should be. Somehow director Miri Menzel manages to maintain a witty ironic tone throughout the picture, even though its subject is the German occupation during World War II. Menzel, who both wrote and directed the film, centers events around a quiet young lad (Vaclav Neckar) who is at a perceptive, uneasy stage in his adolescence. He works at a railway station--the "closely watched trains" were the German munitions trains which had special priority...
...story matched in truth Hollywood's fantasy about itself: an immigrant lad from Rumania, upward mobility via New York's City College, a scholarship to an acting academy, a theater apprenticeship, a break in the movies. A stage portrayal of a gangster led to the role of Rico in Little Caesar (1930). It was only Robinson's fourth picture-100 more were to come-but he realized perfectly the character of the brutal, power-crazed mobster. He also created a stereotype for himself and a durable genre for Hollywood...
Continental Grain Co. of Manhattan. Continental is headed by French-born Michel Fribourg, 59, a shrewd, aggressive executive, whose family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
...early 19th century Belgium, Adolphe Sax was struck on the head by a brick. The accident-prone lad also swallowed a needle, fell down a flight of stairs, toppled onto a burning stove, and accidentally drank some sulfuric acid. When he grew up, he invented the saxophone...