Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empty Symbol. At the gate of the Royal Palace, fierce, shabby Partisans mounted guard. But the palace was an empty symbol. Young King Peter, exiled in London, might never live there again. Boys & girls of the Serbian Anti-Fascist Youth Congress chanted: "We don't want Peter, we want Tito." Said Tito: "Old Balkan differences will never again appear in the Balkans...
Last September the austere London Times, most reverend of Britain's newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which had caused the serial number on its front page to exceed the proper figure by 23. The mistake, said the Times, would be rectified by numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a citizen's association, shocked by Florida's juvenile delinquency, has raised $50,000, begun acquiring property for a youth-center memorial. The center will provide teenagers with tennis courts, a softball diamond, library, snack bar, recreation room and a patio for dancing...
...Mare Island mutineers heard their sentences last week. The 50 Negro sailors who refused to load explosives on a Pacific-bound munitions ship (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq) were reduced to the lowest rank (apprentice seaman), given stiff prison terms. Ten of them got 15 years. Because of "youth, previous clear records and short periods of service," 24 of them got modified terms of twelve years; eleven got ten years; five got eight years...
Last week young Cy Sulzberger landed one of the best jobs in U.S. reporting: he was made chief foreign correspondent of the New York Times. To Teach this eminence in ten brief years he had successfully overcome the handicaps of youth, competition from the ablest foreign staff possessed by any single U.S. newspaper and, perhaps, his relationship (nephew) to Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger...