Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welles.put up more resistance. He first ignored, then rudely rebuffed the young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks...
There was never much doubt about what the Lord intended for Henry Sloane Coffin. As a youngster in New York City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board...
...Feathers," by A. M. Koehler is an exception, and one of the nicer pieces of writing "Radditudes" has published. In fact, if the reader hadn't already been confronted with so many previous examples of deranged mentality, he might find this study of a strapping youngster who knifes his mothers because she makes him kill chickens too often grimly entertaining, ridiculous as it sounds in synopsis. But it unfortunately follows a story called "The Cottage With Ducks in Normandy," by Austryn Wainhouse. Towards the end of his tale, one of Wainhouse's characters, "faintly aware of some unbalance or maladjustment...
...bishop has been big, hearty Rt. Rev. Basil Batty, who found the job "hard work, but very pleasant." Lately, however, the going has been tough. In a plane from Moscow recently he found the stratosphere too much for his 74 years and resigned in favor of 67-year-old Youngster Selwyn, an ex-chaplain...
...that, mother?" asked the youngster...