Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only non-Parker to hold the job, who becomes board chairman. Dan Parker is the grandson of George Parker, who founded the firm in 1888, and son of Kenneth Parker, who was board chairman until last month. Daniel Parker has been groomed for the top spot at Parker since boyhood. A Marine 2nd lieutenant in World War II. he attended Harvard Business School, joined the company in 1949 and was put in charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives at the office at 6:30 a.m., likes to skip lunch and work until evening. He pilots...
...LONG Row TO HOE, by Billy C. Clark (233 pp.; Crowell; $4.50), at first seems to tug too unashamedly at the reader's sympathies. In fact, this autobiographical sketch of a Kentucky boyhood is flecked by neither self-pity nor stuffiness, and its markings of American life are so authentic that a latter-day Mark Twain could reshape it without much trouble into a new Huckleberry Finn...
...family been prosperous ; after all, few of the more sheltered boys got to know Mountain Mouse, the Hogarthian local whore. With a passionate hunger for education, Author Clark eventually made it to the University of Kentucky, is now a freelance writer. Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around...
...picture will be, to say the least, disappointed. As written, Huck was a young river rat who lived in a wharf barrel and smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor blemish as they contemplate the moviemakers' supreme achievement: from...
...linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country home in which he spent his boyhood; flying through murderous anti-aircraft fire, he recalls dreamily a childhood game of running through raindrops. Unbelieving readers may take these passages as literary inventions after the fact; Biographer Migeo suggests convincingly that they probably occurred to Saint-Ex just as he said they...