Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notified. In ten minutes a telegram is on its way to Casper Zinkowitz' hometown, the picture editor is giving instructions to a photographer by long distance. Next morning the National Affairs editor will find on his desk a report of interviews with Zinkowitz' former law partner and boyhood friends. Meanwhile duplicate photographs of the justice-to-be are flying air mail to the printers in Chicago and editor in Manhattan...
...SCOTLAND-R. H. Bruce Lock-hart-Putnam ($3). In this nostalgic, slow-paced account of his athletic boyhood, Author Lockhart (British Agent) gives first place to relatives and Rugger, with interspersed laments on the decline of bagpipes, kilts, Scotch whiskey, dialect and nationalism, winds up with a stirring defense of schoolmasters. Concluded with this volume, Author Lockhart's autobiographical series adds little to modern letters, but makes an interesting example of Scotch frugality in living one's life twice over...
...swim in the swimming pool that Design for Living paid for, pamper their dachshunds Elsa and Rudolf, indulge in fancy cookery, their mutual hobby. It is the same farm, lovingly elaborated, where Alfred lived as a boy. Natives still call him Bill, a nickname he got from worshipping a boyhood hero, Buffalo Bill...
...educator and organizer as well as a crack physicist. He is jovial and easy-going but knows how to handle men and get things done. His grandfather was an immigrant from Norway, his father a schoolteacher. Born in South Dakota 36 years ago, young Ernest was a boyhood friend of Merle Anthony Tuve, now a brilliant physicist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. One summer he clerked at night in a hotel, another summer he sold aluminum ware in the farming region, obtained a brand-new Ford by a series of progressive trades starting with a very old Ford...
Meanwhile, as Latvia's looming Munters left Geneva for Riga jauntily wearing credit for having stepped ably into the empty Dutch breeches, Europeans were intrigued by details of the little-known visit last spring of Mr. & Mrs. Munters to Dictator Joseph Stalin (TIME, June 28). In his boyhood Latvia's still young Foreign Minister studied at the Vladimir Military Academy in Petrograd to become an officer in Tsar Nicholas' Imperial Army, was turned out of school by the Revolution. In Moscow, vivacious Mrs. Munters, a typically irrepressible Russian of pre-Revolution type, promptly taxed Stalin...