Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice had earned the job. Under the motherly guidance of Executive Editor Thompson and Editor in Chief Helen Valentine, Seventeen has grown in five years from a gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average...
Mordecal Peter (Three Finger) Brown and Charles A. (Kid) Nichels, two great Pitchers of the past, today joined 56 other baseball immortals in the game's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 10 (Johnson), St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 3 (Chambers), Boston 3 Boston 4(Hughson), St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 11 (Carey), Boston 3 New York 12 (Byrne), Detroit 0 New York 10 (Jansen), Chicago 1 Washington 7 (Searb'r'ugh), Cleveland 3 Brooklyn 3 (Minner), St. Louis 7 Washington 2 (Hudson), Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 14 (Ruffensberger), Philadelphia 3 (McCahan), Chicago 2 Philadelphia 7 Chicago...
...after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was 19 . . . a wild, irresponsible kid," he told the Illinois State Parole Board. "I feel that in 25 years I have matured considerably . . . I am not a kid any more." The board reserved decision...
City Across the River (Universal-International), based on Irving Shulman's novel, The Amboy Dukes, and solemnly introduced by Drew Pearson, is another slum drama with a social message. It tells the story of a Brooklyn kid (Peter Fernandez) who joins a tough street gang (the "Dukes") and quickly goes wrong...
...contract gas-well driller. Chuck is a hero to Hamlin, but the townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used...