Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game's brightest young star, Pancho is now eligible for becks & nods from the social set that patronizes big-time tennis. "But," says he: "I don't drink cocktails-just beer." Besides, the food at fancy parties does not appeal to Pancho's cast-iron stomach, which thrives on beans (with or without chili and cheese) and tortillas...
...over pictorial representations of Christ. When the Rev. George B. Chambers, vicar of Carbrooke Church in Norfolk, undertook a journey to Bulgaria to witness the Protestant pastors' trial (TIME, March 7), the tabloid Daily Mirror indignantly published a picture of the crucifix which Vicar Chambers commissioned in 1935-Young Christ Triumphant (see cut). Vicar Chambers was as undisturbed about the crucifix as he had been about the Bulgarian trials. "The hammer & sickle are Christian symbols," he explained...
This year Saga's cautious bamboo-shoot farmers realized with shocked surprise what a spiritual vacuum was left: in January's general election, 37 of their young people voted Communist. Saga's conservative toshiyori (elders) lost no time in calling a town meeting to talk it over. Up stood prosperous Farmer Sakuji Takahashi with a ready-made solution. In the big city of Kyoto, said Sakuji, he had heard Msgr. Paul Furuya, a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, preach to some new converts. The monsignor's brand of religion, he argued, looked like just what Saga needed...
...white frame laboratory on an outpost of the Essar Ranch near San Antonio, an intense young scientist is operating on a partially anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes later he sews up the incision. The cow is only a scrub from the range of a nearby rancher-but if all goes well she will bear a calf which has two pedigreed parents...
...idol who takes a tumble in the story is Baines (Ralph Richardson), an embassy butler in London. Baines is detested by his tight-lipped wife, idolized by the ambassador's young son Felipe (Bobby Henrey), and loved by an embassy typist (Michele Morgan) whom he in turn loves. Out of this emotional tangle, Author Greene has built a clever, suspenseful tale. Borrowing Henry James's trick of using the eyes of children as peepholes into adult passions, Greene centered the story on little Felipe...