Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "La Belle Epoque: The Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue," the famous French photographer whose pictures chronicle the peaceful period before World...
...Asimov feels that he must work even faster. He has been haunted ever since boyhood by the fact that the human brain reaches the peak of physiological development by the age of 16, after which it can only deteriorate. "My memory is not what it used to be," he says, "and some day the atrophy of the brain cells will overtake the benefits of my experience...
...Guns & Guts. Until joining General Mills, Bob Richards never earned more than $6,000 a year. Something of a neighborhood tough during his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., Richards got religion when he started going with a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After high school, he attended a small church school in Virginia, where he was a star athlete, and where he met and married Mary Leah Cline (they have three teen-age children). He then transferred to the University of Illinois, where he showed equal proficiency in the vaulting pit and the classroom. Armed with a master...
...this new humility, Lindbergh has rediscovered a reverence for wildlife that traces back to his farm boyhood in Minnesota. He has become a director of the World Wild Life Fund, works at fund raising and even writes his own pulling letters ("Let us not be a generation recorded in future histories as destroying the irreplaceable inheritance of life formed through eons past"). He continues his interest in medicine, spends a lot of his time in a laboratory at the Navy's medical-research center in Bethesda, Md., working on new equipment with patience and precision...
...this first novel, Chaim Potok, 38, editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America and graduate cum laude of a New York Jewish boyhood, brews up a hearty bowl of the same old chicken soup whose recipe was laid down a generation ago by Henry Roth in Call It Sleep and Daniel Fuchs in his Summer in Williamsburg trilogy. Potok, however, adds a slightly different flavor: the conflict of his youthful protagonists is resolved against the waning days of World War II on the home front-a back ground that, in the hands of novelists of all creeds, is becoming...