Word: ruggeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the weeks passed, Krassowski mastered the various ways of keeping the "tips" (prospective customers) coming to his stand. But studying his fellow carnies became his real interest. He interviewed them, examined their code, eventually found that one theme dominates everything they do. "The carnival," Krassowski concluded, "is one of...
The U.S. Olympic Committee agrees that Stan has the answers; it has appointed him coach of the women's Olympic team. And after watching Shelley and the rest of the Reed girls operate, Stan's Melbourne-bound squad knows it is in for some rugged training. "Everyone agrees...
His most ardent admirers often prefer to remember gruff, octogenarian Colonel Ewart Scott Grogan as he was in the old days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy...
Demarest was 18 and majoring in Anglo-Saxon and pre-Shakespearean drama at Oxford's Magdalen College in 1942 when he decided to return to the U.S. and help fight the war. At Liverpool he joined the crew of a U.S. freighter bound for New York. His British training...
The fishermen of the China coast are a rugged and self-reliant lot. Inured to the vagaries of wind, weather and their fellow man, they have been able to endure better than those ashore the demands of their new Communist masters. Proud and individualistic, they were often forced to attend...