Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Policing the Police. The son of a Brooklyn realtor, Anderson was a bright kid who skipped grades, got out of a Jesuit high school early to enter the Naval Academy as a skinny (6 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.) youngster of 16. He finished 27th in his 1927 class, then plunged wholeheartedly into naval aviation. His rise to high rank was steady, up to a third star as deputy to Pacific Commander Felix Stump in 1957. Then he abruptly asked for a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division and meet an old tradition...
...mound. Pitcher Mike Hanes. 10, wound up and threw a soft, slow curve. As Barry turned to swing, the ball hit him on the chest. The youngster dropped his bat, staggered backward, collapsed in the arms of Umpire Al Millham. and died. Improbably, the mild impact had stopped Barry's heart. Pitcher Hanes collapsed in hysterics. But like so many Little League parents, grief-stricken Jack Babcock showed a stubborn concern for the game. "I hope this doesn't curtail Little League ball," said Babcock. "Barry wouldn't want that. He loved baseball more than anything...
...haired elder of the group, she barked: "Get off that rug! Get over there with the rest of the wet ones." When someone protested, she pointed at the puddles on the floor and demanded: "Well, is he going to clean up the mess?" Then she turned on the grinning youngster of the group and exploded: "You look like a bum! Get out!" He did. So did the others. When the innkeeper learned that she had just given the heave ho to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Senator Paul H. Douglas and Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, she shrugged...
...privilege of the few. Even by 1945, only one-tenth of 1% of the population attended universities-mainly the well born, who "went up" to Oxford and Cambridge and on to the "Establishment" that runs English culture and politics. But in 1948 came a dramatic change: for any poor youngster with a rich mind, Britain's welfare state promised a free university education through a vast system of scholarships. "For the first time," recalls Eton's Headmaster Robert Birley, "the working class realized that universities belonged just as much to it as to the 'others...
Even as a youngster, Jean was so articulate that her father once burst out at her: "The only damn thing in this world you're good for is talking," and to that moment of encouragement she Pollyan-nishly traces her bent for writing dialogue. If she had a problem, it was her height?5 ft. ii in. To her brothers Hugh and Frank (now a Connecticut bank manager and a Philadelphia lawyer) and her sister...