Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a youngster starts out as a copilot, his associates suggest that he will doubtless want to join the union. If the newcomer agrees and is able, he is carefully nursed along by his pilot, becomes a full-fledged captain in due course. If he disagrees, he may live to be the world's oldest copilot...
...after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last week, Borden's Milo, a husky, hay-haired youngster named Allen ("Buck") La Fever, had hoisted his Jersey calf, Phoebe, on 61 consecutive days and was still going strong...
Same day, another youngster in the fast-growing family of Field enterprises had a birthday. For the four-year-old Chicago Sun, deep in the red, it was a red-letter day that saw its first A.P. copy (TIME, Dec. 10) roll out of clacking teletype printers. He was still being politely charitable about his rival, the Chicago Tribune's autocratic Robert Rutherford McCormick. Field's comment: "He runs a very efficient paper...
...youngster pulled the wrong lever; it released a two-ton life raft which crashed to the deck below, miraculously injuring nobody else. But he lost a finger in the process...
...Merit medal for treating two million G.I.s to several million dollars worth of his pugilistic skill. Said Major General Clarence H. Kells: "You have made one of the greatest contributions to the reconditioning program for veterans. . . ." Said the laconic champion: "Sir, I am sincerely grateful." (Joe gently chided a youngster who asked him how he licked Max Schmeling: "Remember, little fellow, he beat...