Word: truants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He climbed "the long...
...Probation. In North Bergen, N.J., Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Miller Jr. reported to the board of education that George Scheuermann, 80-year-old chief truant officer, appointed to the post in 1910, has not been showing up for work, concluded soberly: "Our investigation shows that he is not the best...
Seydou decided to get some service out of the ancient feudal officers at his father's court. The royal Master of Ceremonies was put in charge of street cleaning; the Keeper of the Weapons was made health commissioner; the general of the nonexistent army was made chief truant officer. With French government help, a new industry, coffee culture, was introduced, and-in direct answer to the newly literate demands of the Sultan's people-a postal service was begun. "With tradition as the father and modernization, brought by the French, as mother," said the Sultan, "we shall produce...
...Clean Dirt. Frank Santana, his two younger brothers and his widowed mother came from Puerto Rico; they lived on $158 monthly relief. Often truant from school, he was never truculent, simply baffled. His I.Q. score: a very low 69. He stayed four terms in the same class, but his teachers never considered him a disciplinary problem. A neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys...
...showing signs of spring fever. Most of the week's dramas ran in pairs like truant schoolboys. There were two broad farces, two plays about frustrated spinsters, two about boxers, two about lady spies, two about heartless fathers, and two about the general untrustworthiness...