Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nairobi a young British colonist shot his black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised to "put the darkness behind us" in Kenya (TIME, Nov. 23), and last week Peter Harold Richard Poole, 28, became the first white man in the colony's history to be sentenced to death for the murder of a black...
After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young chickens and make them into capettes or caponettes might conceivably induce cancer in the consumer...
...chief trouble is once again book trouble, and the sense of a period musical in treatment as well as subject matter. Saratoga tells a tale of two young fortune seekers: an illegitimate New Orleans beauty and a ranchman gypped out of his inheritance, who unromantically team up to get ahead in the world but become the victims of romance. In telling its tale, Saratoga snows cliches, trips over its own gaudy furnishings, and interminably keeps a heroine who was born out of wedlock from entering it. An added trouble: lacking all freshness and zip, the show possesses no compensating charm...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced new officers who will attempt to keep Bow St.'s funniest humor magazine on the newsstands for yet another year. President will be Samuel H. Young '61, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Ibis, John L. Berendt '61, of Lowell House and Syracuse, N.Y.; Narthex, J. Jeremy Johnston '61, of Lowell House and South Hadley; Treasurer, John A. Herbert '60, of Lowell House and Quincy; Secretary, George Crawford, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Salters...
Monday night Young attended a dinner of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee which, although branded as Communistic by the House Committee on un-American Activities, has not been placed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...