Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-five-year-old Novelist Bazin may have a sneaking sympathy for his hero. As a youngster, he took his father's car, skidded into a tree, went through the windshield headfirst, and spent two years in an asylum for "pathological deviation of intellectual kind." There, however, whatever resemblance Bazin may seem to have to his hero ceases. Since his discharge, Bazin has established himself as one of France's promising young authors...
...dead leaders still stalk Pennsylvania politics. Alignments formed long ago still operate, and the forces that pull and tug at John Fine today were pulling and tugging at John Fine's predecessors when Bob Taft's father was in the White House and Dwight Eisenhower was a youngster in Abilene...
...child wears earphones and holds electrodes in his hands. At first the operator sends a strong sound signal through the phones and then gives the youngster a slight electric shock (only one stage stronger than a tickle). This makes the child's hands sweat so that they serve as better conductors of electricity, and the amount of current they conduct is recorded by an automatic inker...
...playing the trumpet ("I was playing before Louis Armstrong got out of the Waif's Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...
Swallow & Spit. The early haunt of the pithecanthropus was in the south of France, at Aix. He was something of a sluggard in class, but after school he roamed through the rugged Provencal landscape with a youngster whose nature was as strong and perhaps even deeper than his own-Paul Cézanne...