Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cane, passed his 81st birthday last week quietly at Doom in The Netherlands. Nazi Germany took no official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take on, with backing only from England, the combined forces of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony who wished...
...Island (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is fiery Elmer Rice in unembattled mood, painting a gaudy picture of Manhattan, telling the story of youth's slow struggle and love's young dream. The play is pleasant, picturesque, shallow. Midwestern Boy (John Craven), who has been pounding the city pavements, meets New England Girl (Betty Field), who has been eluding the city Lotharios, high up in the Statue of Liberty. They do not meet till the start of Act III, but the end of Act III runs true to form...
...Lincoln In Illinois (RKO) falters through the Great Emancipator's frontier youth, does not hit its solemn stride until long-legged, melancholy Lawyer Lincoln stalks in to meet tightlipped, go-getting Mary Todd. From then on, it is dedicated to the proposition that its doom-ridden hero was nagged into greatness by an ambitious wife...
...Carl Henry Proehl, a rangy Minneapolis youth, wanted to be a prize fighter, but his father objected. So Carl changed his name to David Barry, fought his share of bouts, in 1925 left town and never saw his folks again. His father died in 1932, his mother in 1935, leaving him some $40,000. In Long Beach, Calif., meanwhile, David Barry had married a nice girl, fathered two sons, done well with a coffee shop until in 1935 he sold out. His wife got a divorce, but before she did, Barry told her his real name, and she told...
Jacks for All Models. Youth is not all that Ohio State serves. When it was founded in 1870 as a land-grant college, one of its main jobs was to help farmers. Agricultural research is still a prime concern, but today Ohio State has many other functions. To it, for conferences, advice, information, last year went 30,000 people. Some services...