Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...periodic terms as Mayor of Boston, that same stripling, just out of Harvard and a cub reporter for the Boston Transcript, went to City Hall where he heard the Mayor rip into "that old son-of-a-gun," Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Last week the same youngster, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, had just polled 100,000 more votes than Democrat Curley to win the Republican nomination for the same Senate seat...
...that with the help of a $1,221 Government loan he was making out, had even been able to pay back $400 of it. Up for Presidential inspection in her mother's arms went 19-month-old Darlene Welbus. Said he: "She's a fine-looking youngster." No baby-kisser is Franklin Roosevelt, but while cameras clicked he seized Darlene's hand, counted her fingers: "One, two, three, four, five...
Father von Schilling, on & off relief, coached small Stanwurt until the youngster could play a man-sized repertoire without fatigue to his peewee chest, throat, lips, cheeks. In December Stanwurt played the euphonium at a policemen's entertainment in Norfolk City Auditorium. Then he graduated to the biggest wind instrument of all, the Sousaphone (see cut). From H. N. White Co. in Cleveland, Father von Schilling obtained a King Giant Sousaphone with a 28-in. gold bell and the standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while...
Nominee Lee's Republican opponent in November will be another youngster, 38-year-old Herbert K. Hyde. A part-Indian who once studied elocution under Professor Lee, Nominee Hyde successfully prosecuted the kidnappers of Oilman Charles Frederick Urschel (TIME, Oct. 2 & 9, 1935). Last week he planned to out-josh Josh Lee, blanket Oklahoma with flamboyant oratory. Lee's slogan: "From hoe-handle to the U. S. Senate." Hyde's slogan: "From bootblack to U. S. Senator...
This "scientific" effect has been discarded by the Coney Island sideshow ballyhoo merchants. ... I don't know a single magician in the U. S., or even a carnival sideshow fakir who would dare to attempt this feat today, for every 16-year-old youngster probably knows how it is done. Actually what happens is that the fakir wears a harness, or corset-like arrangement. . . . Enclosed herewith are photostats from the most famous book of magic ever written-Modern Magic by Professor Hoffman, which was written in England in the early 1890's. . . . Note that...