Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aussies' secrets. The Russians even tried an eight-course dinner-and-pumping session aboard the Soviet liner Gruzia. But the Aussies had nothing to hide. Their long months of balmy weather and seaboard beaches make waterbugs of thousands of Australians as soon as they can toddle. Once a youngster can keep his head above the surface, he can join one of 450 A.S.U. sponsored clubs, where competent coaches will teach him free of charge to swim with skill...
Globetrotting Gossipist Leonard Lyons bumped into a recent visitor at the Swiss villa of aging (67), London-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, relayed a report on Chaplin's daughter Victoria, 5, and her musing about a sixth child imminently expected by Oona O'Neill Chaplin: "The youngster said: 'When I was in my mother's tummy, I thought my father was Spanish.' The visitor asked: 'How long did you think that?' The child said: 'Until I was born-and then I heard him speak English...
...surprised these days to see some youngster win an individual tournament. Such oldtimers as Patty, Fay Crocker, 37, Louise Suggs. 34, and Betty Jameson, 38, are understandably subject to fatigue. Veterans of nearly two decades on the road, they date back to the days when the late Babe Didrikson Zaharias boosted ladies' golf into the big time. The wonder is that they still win as much money as they...
...omniscient figure who takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl on the youngster's head. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young perform adequately as the harassed couple in typical domestic comedy fashion with soap-opera naivete. The script is often forced and depends on such cliches as prying neighbors, bosses chasing their secretaries, and the like...
...Bibbia, 35, a brawny Italian grocer, buckled on his crash helmet and goggles, carefully checked the heavy leather pads on his knees and elbows. He adjusted steel shields that guarded the back of each hand, then he threw himself onto a sled no bigger (3½ ft.) than a youngster's Flexible Flyer...