Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beech and Cessna might be one huge company today were it not for a personality clash between Walter Beech, a Tennessee farm boy turned pilot, and Clyde Cessna, another farm boy from Kansas. The two started off together, formed Travel Air Co. in 1925 with Cessna as president, Beech as sales manager. But after building two types of planes, one of which was the first commercial aircraft to fly the Pacific to Hawaii, Cessna went off to form his own company. Beech merged Travel Air with Curtiss-Wright and later, in 1932, formed his own company...
When shades of the prison house of maturity begin to close upon a growing boy, he has the chance, later denied him, of choosing his peculiar cell. The story of the choice is usually fascinating to the balding businessman who insists on recalling how, as a youth, he nearly ran away to sea, or to the physician who claims to have been, at 16, a poet. It takes an artist to make the story of adolescent crisis fascinating to others. Such an artist is Mario Soldati (The Capri Letters, TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), a busy, boisterous Italian movie director...
...Jesuit fathers of his school have seen a boy of talent and want him for their own. The boy passionately wants to accept his vocation, but the devil presents himself in female form-specifically in the guise of a steamy 35-year-old woman, a friend of the family but no friend to chastity. In relatively few lines, Soldati carpenters a cross for his hero. Should he have faith in his passion or give up his passion for the faith? Neither his mother, plagued by desires of her own, his pious grandmother, his innocent playmates, nor his latently homosexual confessor...
Novelist Soldati is thoroughly at home with his sensual theme. His book is a better story of the emotional conflicts of a pious and troubled boy than the classic account of the same situation in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. With Irishman Joyce, what stands out authentically is a belief in damnation; with Italian Soldati, it is temptation that is real. Whether or not readers accept the possibility of eternal damnation, Soldati is utterly convincing about the existence of eternal woman...
...Cosmic Casanova, an intergalactic lover boy tunes in a cute pinup on his rocketship TV screen. He makes an unscheduled landing on her tiny home planet, only to be disappointed when the hatch door opens. The girl turns out to be a giantess, and "I'd have looked like such a fool, standing there on tiptoe with my arms wrapped around her knees...