Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in the Matto Grosso jungle, 32-year-old Author Spinelli, now a U. S. citizen, draws on his own boyhood for good jungle descriptions...
...Halstead, Kans. (pop. 1,367) hospital which he gave away in 1933 to the Sisters of St. Joseph, "Pop" Hertzler, now 68, is a lanky, Ichabod Cranelike surgeon whom a Civil War veteran described as "the homeliest man I seen since I saw Old Abe." During his farm boyhood his favorite reading was Dr. Foote's Family Physician, and Hertzler recalls with satisfaction the time when he walloped a mean teacher with a slate-it pointed to "the ability to act quickly, accurately and energetically...
Isaac Newton, a prematurely born, posthumous son of a "wild, extravagant and weak" father, showed some aptitude for science in boyhood, went to Cambridge as a "poor scholar." In his twenties he made three of the greatest discoveries in human history: the Law of Gravitation, the system of mathematics called calculus, and the fact that white light is a composite of colored light. But he did not publish his Principia until two decades later, and then only at the urging of Halley, the comet man. After finishing the Principia, Newton almost lost his mind, but recovered and retained his faculties...
Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. did not rise from boyhood poverty in West Virginia to wealth and power in Pennsylvania by wasting dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough in 1932 also has contributed materially to his emergence as Pennsylvania's Public Contractor No. 1. To Pennsylvanians born & bred in gutter politics, it therefore seems perfectly natural that blue-eyed Little Matt should draw first mud in this State's muddled Democratic primary campaign...
...House then rose for the Easter recess, and M. P.s had leisure to read other pertinent comments on Adolf Hitler made last week by his boyhood friend, Fritz Grunscheder, today working in a New Britain, Conn, brewery. Said Mr. Grunscheder: "I can remember lots of times when we would call Adolf over and tell him he could come with us to where there were some good apples to be snitched. But Adolf could never come. His father worked for the Government and it would be bad if he got caught. It was as if he had to set an example...