Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing what he liked best. Born to affluence in St. Louis, he had become a Navy medic, been caught up in the soul-searing 1954 evacuation of anti-Communist refugees from North Viet Nam, returned to Asia to set up hospitals in the remotest parts of Red-threatened northern Laos. There, three months ago, "Dr. Tom" was trudging along a snag-strewn jungle trail from his hospital at Muong Sing, only five miles from the Chinese border, to make a "house call" when he fell and bumped his right chest. It felt like nothing worse than a bruise...
Woolworth's new store, set in modernistic decor (wall murals, blue-green mosaic tile) in the $28-million Ala Moana shopping center outside Honolulu (TIME, Aug. 10), is a far cry from the red-fronted, musty-smelling Main Street fixture known in hundreds of U.S. towns for its notions and knicknacks. It symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world...
...next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie's part of Connecticut. As the gulls fly in from the Sound to rain clams on the roof, the families keep moving out, and turnover produces such attractions as Red Knees Baker, Rotten Girl Spencer, and Elizabeth Barrett Schultz...
...most alluring is Red Knees, who has a "massive brain" and knows "the kings of England and all kinds of scam like that." She charges. Dobie for help with his homework, gets 7? a sentence for a parse job, 10? apiece for the provinces of Canada, 80? to tell who fought in the Hundred Years' War. Her earnings buy forbidden lingerie. "Some day I will be allowed to wear black lace underwear," Red Knees explains, "and when that day comes, buster, I mean to be ready...
When her slip finally comes in, there's no telling what Red Knees Baker is up to, for Dobie has long since gone off to a state university, where a coed named Chloe ("what a great heart beat beneath that flat chest") mercifully ends the story by marrying him. All of which is one more example of what readers have known since Barefoot Boy with Cheek: Humorist Max Shulman is a sort of Seventh Avenue A. A. Milne. He has a corner on pooh...