Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milton Isra Levine tells children how babies come. Ten years ago, when he started, he went through the old, old rigmarole about the bees and flowers. A twelve-year-old asked: "When are you going to come to the point?" Dr. Levine promptly sat down and had the youngster tell...
When the Soviet Union adopted its new Constitution four years ago, it provided free schooling for every qualified youngster from kindergarten through university. In Russia's 550 colleges, students got not only free tuition but a salary of 100 to 200 rubles ($20 to $40) a month. Last week a Government decree changed the Constitution: high-school and college students were required to pay tuition. Rates: from 150 to 400 rubles a year...
Many a willing youngster with more patriotism than schooling has lately wanted to know why the Navy (and the Army) take only collegians for air service. Stock answers are two: 1) the Army and Navy are picking prospective officers as well as fliers; 2) military fliers now must be engineers, meteorologists, navigators...
...Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...
Tough, erect little Oscar Penttila (pronounced Pen'-te-la) was born in Finland 37 years ago. Like many another Finnish youngster, he went to Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week...