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Unhidden Tears. When he was 15, Sonny was banished to Valley Forge Military Academy, a seat of learning heavily fortified with boxwood hedges and Revolutionary War cannon against dangers lurking in the Pennsylvania hills. Although the school is a recognizable model for Pencey Prep, the neurosis farm in Catcher, young Salinger?who talked of grabbing the big loot as a Hollywood writer-producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach...
...rumpled man with hair like a boxwood hedge and a permanent expression of bereavement. Kaufman hid a marshmallow heart with a manner that discouraged nicknames. To the actors in the 40 plays he directed (many of his own. and such others as Of Mice and Men, My Sister Eileen and Guys and Dolls), he spoke like a young mother. But he terrified waiters, suffered fools badly, and did not welcome familiarity from underlings-or from overlings either, as Critic Alexander Woollcott. his boss when Kauf man was on the drama desk of the New York Times, reported with asperity...
...artist's greatest obstacle was his own newspaper. The arrival of his sketches set in motion an elaborate process by which they were converted into print. Copying the drawing-in reverse-on a segmented boxwood block, separately engraving its various pieces-anywhere from 6 to 36-reassembling them and electrotyping a metal printing plate, took at least two weeks and usually more. By the time Leslie's received Henri Lovie's moving depiction of the death of Brigadier General Nathaniel S. Lyon, its home artists had already twice rendered the general's death; Lovie...
Gracie has ingratiated herself with millions of Americans in such mad trifles as her One Finger Piano Concerto, her plugs for Sponsor Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations"), her weakness for clipping her boxwood hedge with George's electric razor. In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding. In desperation, he wired Gracie: "Can't you make a living any other...
...these leveling times when British professional men clip their own boxwood and their wives push their own prams, London exhibits no district more decorous and decorative than St. John's Wood. But in Queen Victoria's gilded reign a century ago, this first of the city's garden suburbs had another reputation. Then noble Britons liked to steal away from their confining Mayfair mansions and visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road...