Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngster," one asked him, "what are you doing here...
...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...
Worse yet, even if the blood were available, the three U.S. plants producing G.G. could not handle the extraction job, and such plants are expensive to build and operate. Finally, G.G. itself is costly: at present prices, a season's four shots for a 50-pound youngster would cost $70, and more than $100 for a 100-pounder, because the amount used goes up with the subject's weight. Mass production might halve these costs...
Paddy Swift does not look like a tough guy. A tall, gangling youngster with long sideburns and mild brown eyes, he is largely self-taught. He did his best to avoid school altogether, and when rounded up and set at a desk, he spent his time sketching instead of learning his Latin. Then came "a short period during which I tried to get the family used to the idea that I didn't want...
...Devil in the Flesh, 17-year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book...