Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modest man, which he is, British Poet John Betjeman has unsuspected temerity. Although he has done nothing more significant in life than to farm a little, review books, write guides about the English countryside and turn out delightful light verse, Betjeman at 54 has published an autobiography of his boyhood and young manhood. What is more, he has written it in verse. At first glance, this might seem to be a supremely unnecessary exercise. In fact, it is a tour de force of considerable charm...
...England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
...counted. English Poet Laurie Lee made no bones about the joy of his poverty-stricken youth in The Edge of Day (TIME, March 28). Now Marcel Pagnol, a French Academician and man of film and theater (Fanny, The Baker's Wife), writes with uninhibited pleasure of a Provence boyhood. By his account, it was so lacking in bitterness that, to Freudian critics, it will seem downright square...
...wild country that was a hunter's paradise. With his father, who had an antique shotgun, Marcel and a local Huck Finn type bagged enough birds to feed a battalion. They roamed the dramatic forests like the Comanches they pretended to be, and formed one of those enduring boyhood friendships that can later be seen as one of the milestones of a life. Young Marcel repaid his friend for the treasure of country lore by teaching him one of his favorite words, finally showing his deep regard by writing out for him "anticonstitutionellement...
...after Rosalie Fallen, rubs faces with Pattie Donahue, very nearly vloops with Eva Masters, does so gladly (and improbably) with a commercial lady named Black Lil. And marries, in the happy epilogue, beautiful Lucille Lake, girl harpist. The book, as its author confesses, is a "piratical, lying map of boyhood," which is the only kind worth having, and perhaps the only kind there...