Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was ex-Chicago Bootlegger Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy paroled from the Illinois state pen last month (TIME, Nov. 23-30) than a book titled The Stolen Years, Touhy's rip-roaring life story, was published by Cleveland's Pennington Press. The hot volume, co-authored by Chicago Newsman Ray Brennan, is chiefly devoted to protesting Touhy's innocence of the wacky 1933 kidnaping of Swindler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a crime for which Touhy served 25 years of a 99-year stretch. The complaint against the book: it alleges that Factor committed wholesale perjury...
...state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist...
...Actually," said Vag, hoping to match this heartiness, "I come from Dobbs Ferry--we have some pretty cold winters out there too." "Rip Van Winkle country, you know," he added, weakly...
...Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as free of vice as he was of intellectual curiosity. Throughout his life, his favorite plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional stogie (he chewed, too, while Governor of Ohio, and his spittoon aim was fine...
...does one of the season's most successful college football coaches refuse to give his team an oldfashioned, rip-roaring pep talk before the game? See SPORT, The Boys from Syracuse...