Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharp Blade. Then the Italians settled down to play. In the doubles, Pietrangeli's finesse and Sirola's power combined for a 3-6, 10-8, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4 victory over Buchholz and his boyhood partner from St. Louis, stocky Chuck McKinley, 19. Next day Pietrangeli kept Italy alive by using patty-ball tactics to befuddle the slugging Buchholz, 6-1, 6-2, 6-8, 3-6, 6-4. That put the team score at 2-2 and set up a showdown between MacKay and Sirola, two of the hardest hitters in tennis...
...GOOD LIGHT, by Karl Bjarnhof. A sequel to the blind Danish author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...
...account, Laborite Tony Benn first dreamed of becoming an M.P. when most of his boyhood chums were still aspiring to become locomotive engineers. He realized his dream at 25, rose rapidly in Labor Party ranks, last year was transport "minister:" in Labor's shadow Cabinet. But ever since his elder brother was killed while serving in the R.A.F., the shadowy menace of "the other place" (as the Commons calls the House of Lords) has hung over Tony...
Ever since his boyhood in Tambov Russia, Soyer wanted to be an artist. Along with two of his brothers, Moses and Isaac, both professional painters today, he made endless sketches of horses and Cossacks, which his father would painstakingly correct. In 1913 the family moved to the U.S. to escape Russia's chronic antiSemitism, and in time Raphael went to evening art classes at Manhattan's Cooper Union. He quit high school m his sophomore year, worked as a messenger boy, a factory hand, even did a stint in a shop that turned out cheap flowery embroidery...
...power dams, and the author, who writes well of the region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture. Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a boyhood and young manhood that were unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...