Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Court. His pretty wife, Mildred (Riddle), is his boyhood sweetheart from La Grande, Ore. She tends their two children, Mildred (9), and Bill Jr. or "Bumble" (7), with only the aid of a colored house man named Rochester at their roomy, rented home on the edge of the city. Besides work he likes golf, bridge, wild life and sunsets...
Something of a hero, something of a joke in the country around Powell, Wyo. was huge, shaggy young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...
Call My Brother Back, an autobiographical novel, starts off well with an account of a boyhood among the Ulster farmers and fishermen on Rathlin Island, peters out into unimaginative writing, although the last two-thirds of the story is laid in Belfast during the tense days of "the Trouble." For adult readers, the book will taste more like a piece of citron than a plum...
...boys, Harry Stella and Allen Bergner. Born within eight months of one another (the year before thg U. S. entered the Great War), young Stella, son of an Italian immigrant, wanted to be a soldier; young Bergner, son of a German immigrant, wanted to be a sailor. Playmates from boyhood, both made the football team at Kankakee High School: Stella at right tackle, Bergner at left tackle. When they were graduated, Stella went to West Point, Bergner to Annapolis...
...William Case, 84, of Strongsville, Ohio was called "Santa Claus" for his long white beard, his practice of giving nickels to children at Christmas, and for the groves of Christmas trees he had planted and tended on his farm since boyhood. Each year he sent one of his tallest and best trees to decorate Cleveland's public square. This month The American Magazine wrote him up as an interesting American. Fame brought the world to William Case's evergreen groves: people who came at night and stole his trees by the truckload. One night last week he heard...