Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heydrich has always been reticent about his birth and youth: it is possible that this man with the viciously Nordic head had a Jew for father. He was born at Halle to a musical-academy director, listed in an old musical directory as "Bruno Richard Heydrich (properly Suss)." Suss is a common Jewish name in Germany...
...young for the war, Heydrich joined a radical and terrorist youth organization after the peace, was reputed at 15 a proficient killer. He joined the Navy as a cadet, won several promotions as an officer, was cashiered when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave...
Although somewhat hampered by the tire shortage, the Outing Club is running two ski trips over the holiday weekend. One of the groups is going to the Plymouth Youth Hostel, and the other is going with Radcliffe skiers to a cabin in Pinkham Notch...
...constructive comment from the editorial page. They abound with insidious feature material to imply that because Mayris Chaney has danced in night clubs she is unfit for civilian defense, that because Melvyn Douglas is a Hollywood box-office star we must discount his impressive record as administrator and youth-sponsor, that because Jane Seaver is an acquaintance of Eleanor Roosevelt she is incapable of work in national morale...
...schools proposed these prime objectives for U.S. high-school education: 1) every student should learn to read, write and speak the English language with skill and understand mathematics; 2) cut-&-dried textbook teaching should give way to teaching about the problems of modern living; 3) the concerns of U.S. youth should be the heart of the curriculum; 4) the schools should promote students' physical, mental and emotional health; 5) their "one clear central purpose" should be "to bring to every young American his great heritage of freedom . . . inspire devotion to human welfare...