Word: nine-year-old
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...scrawny nine-year-old from Minsk clambered out of steerage class and onto the hardscrabble streets of Manhattan. Before he died last week at 80, David Sarnoff rose to rule one of the last great personal autocracies in U.S. industry, the $3.3 billion-a-year RCA Corp. Though he was neither scientist nor inventor, he probably did more than any other American to bring radio, television and color TV to the masses. With considerable justification, "General" Sarnoff* cast himself as the father of the entire electronic-communications industry. "In a big ship sailing in an uncharted sea," he would...
Books for older children are also a problem. Many are still written by English authors whose upper-class vocabulary, easy for a literate nine-year-old in Britain, is at a level sometimes not reached by American children until they are older. As a result, all that wholesome British chatter about ripping adventures during the long hols seems, well, childish-and alien corn to boot. To provide up-to-date reading, American juvenile writers have for some years been drearily confronting such Now subjects as sex, violence and drugs...
...blue suit with short pants, his long-sleeved shirt and long white socks, nine-year-old Enrico Tomasso looks like Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he picks up his trumpet, the youngster from Leeds, England, sounds like Louis Armstrong. What he plays is mostly Louis: When It's Sleepy Time Down South, When the Saints Go Marching In. And at the Manhattan nightclub where he has been appearing, customers respond with rare enthusiasm to his strong, clean horn tones. Just in case anyone misses the point, Enrico rolls his eyes occasionally like Satchmo and even pulls out a white handkerchief...
...Johnson children-whose parents are black welfare recipients from the predominantly low-income neighborhood surrounding the Arboretum-were the second and third children to drown in the pond-known locally variously as "Muddy Pond," the Muddies," and "that smelly mudhole"-in 18 years. When a nine-year-old boy drowned in the pond in 1953, the local residents circulated a petition asking Harvard to fill in the pond. Over 300 signatures were collected on the petition before it was turned over to Harvard, but no action was ever taken...
Obscenities. The Russians seem to believe so. They talk of living in a state of siege. Wives of diplomats say that they hesitate to venture out alone, even to neighborhood supermarkets, for fear of being followed or bothered by insults and obscenities. Last week the nine-year-old daughter of Nikolai Loginov, a first secretary to the Soviet U.N. Mission, was subjected to obscenities shouted by a group on the roof of the Park East Synagogue, directly across from the mission on East 67th Street. Says Loginov: "Can you imagine? To a little girl...