Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very young man, demobilized after World War I (he faked a birth certificate to join up at 15), Francis Marion Grandstaff could not decide whether to follow his father's profession of medicine or his childhood inclination to music. He solved his dilemma by taking up crime...
Like most safety directors, Karsch owes his job to a "regrettable incident." On May 15, 1947, when White Sands was young, a German V-2 swooped down at 3,500 m.p.h. and landed three miles from Alamogordo (pop. 5,000). Alamogordans had been hardened by years of practice-bombing and an atom-bomb explosion. One woman called up the Army to "get that thing out of my backyard...
Attenuated Women. When Alfred came home in 1914, his father was horrified by his son's radical ideas and strangely colored landscapes, exiled him to a tiny back bedroom in the family's Manhattan brownstone. There, earnest, hard-working Alfred Maurer painted the attenuated young women with bedroom eyes, the wraiths of young shop girls and waitresses whom he met on inexpensive summer vacations up the Hudson. There, above the Victorian opulence of his father's rooms, he brooded over the composition of abstractions such as George Washington...
...writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...
Application of these basically simple remedies may be a complex job, sometimes even requiring hypnosis. At 35, Salter is an acknowledged master of the behavioristic school's technique. With it, he claims to have cured a businessman of blushing, a young woman of stuttering, a society girl of flatulence, an ex-cabin boy of homosexuality, a doctor and his wife of morphine addiction...