Word: sixteener
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...fidgets or moroseness, he is ready with the assurance that the youngster may only be passing through a standard phase of development. Until now, such guidance has been reserved only for parents' with children under ten. This week, with the publication of Youth: the Years from Ten to Sixteen (Harper; $5.95), Dr. Gesell and his chief collaborators, Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames, bring the young American through adolescence to the brink of adulthood...
...Capitol records-Les Baxter's Poor People of Paris and Nelson Riddle's Lisbon Antigua are the No. 1 and No. 2 jukebox favorites in the U.S. Its Sixteen Tons, by Tennessee Ernie, is the fastest selling record in history (1,000,000 in three weeks). Among Billboard's top ten albums, Capitol last week led all other companies with four. In 14 years Capitol has moved from nowhere to fourth place in the industry, just behind the patriarchs: RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...
Both the problem of crowded houses, and the special plight of the commuter could best be alleviated by the building of new Commuters' Center. If commuters were given a library which could hold more than sixteen tightly packed people, a dining hall looking less like Hayes-Bickford, and bunk-room large enough to accomodate the finals rush, commuters might find their center almost enviable. With their tutors in the same building, rather than a block away, their center would also seem more like a house. An additional bit of prestige might also be added by giving the commuters a housemaster...
...single decade the nationalist wave in Asia and Africa has created sixteen newly independent nations, with a total population of more than 700 million people, one third of mankind...