Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Ed was no determined student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly man who taught Sunday school, became president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and believed that all the world was just as well-meaning as well-meaning Ed Stettinius...
...could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...
...amateur artists had worked into the canvases their feelings (mostly bitter, sometimes awed) about the great strange city which is their official home. There was the riot of Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...Logan, W.Va., Mrs. Mustapha Abdoney, wife of a young farmer on his way from Syria to stay with an uncle, prettied up the 21-month-old baby her husband had not yet seen. In Montreal, Reporter Yves Jasmin, brother of one of Canada's outstanding French-language news editors, had happy news. "I had a letter from Guy," he told friends. "He and mother are expected to land in New York this week." Mrs. Jasmin had been making her first round-trip flight. Before she left, she had told a neighbor that she hoped "if anything was going...
...portraitist son of an even more famed illustrator father (Filles et Garcons, Jeanne d'Arc); lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically unknown" upon the stage at Carnegie Hall "and left it as one of the top-rank violinists of our time." Ginette and her brother, Pianist Jean Neveu, were coming to the U.S. for a series of concerts. With...