Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kaufman of Bridgeport, Conn, stood up for the bad boy. It may be, said Dr. Kaufman, that the bad boy is not bad, but that he has a "brain allergy" to eggs or some other food. From among 600 cases seen in twelve years, he cited that of a schoolboy who was "unmanly," always tired, always flunking in school. Dr. Kaufman got his mother to keep a record of everything the boy ate, and also to note when he felt most tired. These times came, he found, after the lad ate eggs...
Sweden's King Gustaf VI, an avid amateur archaeologist, spent a whole day at the Valo High Seat diggings and acted as excited as a schoolboy. When he left, he gave Archaeologist Holmquist a rousing kick in the seat of the pants: the good old Swedish way of wishing him the best of luck in his follow-up diggings...
...past three years, New York Yankee fans have been treated to the rough & ready English of Dizzy Dean and the schoolboy precision of Joe DiMaggio, who even read his interviews from scripts. Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown...
...bill would authorize the Metropolitan District Commission to purchase the St. Botolph St. sports center for use by schoolboy and college athletic teams from all Metropolitan cities...
...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just...