Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...Communists have even penetrated the colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five...
...being a genius) and champion of "the beautiful people" in short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), hit plays (The Time of Your Life) and novels (The Human Comedy); and Carol Stuart Marcus Saroyan, 24, New York socialite; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Brooks House inaugurated the concert three years ago, when it planned a program mainly for the young children in its community centers. This year, however, the audience will be composed mostly of members of community language groups, mothers' clubs and other adult groups. A Boy Scout contigent has also been invited...
...addition to the rehearsed entertainment, the audience will have a chance to participate in Christmas carol singing. Malcolm H. Holmes '28, who leads the orchestra, has made it a habit in the past to give three children from the audience a chance to try their hands at conducting...