Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfect" candidate for delinquency: "Johnny is always harshly disciplined by his father. The mother generally leaves him to his own devices, letting him run around the streets and usually not knowing what he does or where he goes. The father dislikes the boy. The mother is indifferent to her son, expressing little warmth of feeling, or she is downright hostile to him. The family is unintegrated because, for example, the mother spends most of the day away from home, giving little if any thought to the doings of the children, and the father, a heavy drinker, spends most...
...mother's supervision from 'unsuitable' to 'suitable,' the resultant delinquency probability would be cut." Johnny might then be on the way to the best guarantee against delinquency-firm and friendly parents who get along well with each other and with their son...
Fabulous old N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth crammed his children's-book illustrations with sunset skies, flashing weapons, taut sails, flowing tresses, war bonnets, redcoats and pieces of eight. Andrew Wyeth, his even more famous son, has gradually emptied his own pictures of all but the barest, palest and sharpest images. As against his father's brocades, Andrew Wyeth's art has the austerity of smoky quartz crystals; yet it is all the richer for that, and the more valued. Last week the Philadelphia Museum of Art bought a typically bare new Wyeth...
...Frager won a $1,000 cash prize and engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh orchestras. Three times a Leventritt finalist (in 1955, '56 and '57), Frager has played with the Detroit Symphony and other front-ranking U.S. orchestras. The son of a stocking manufacturer, he started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals in his native St. Louis when he was six. By the time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert circuit...
...Trader. Richardson was born in the East Texas town of Athens in 1891, the seventh son of a farmer and cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout...