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...cousin remembers, 'because the other children didn't smell good.'" So begins an intriguing account of the early years of Richard Nixon in this week's LIFE by Staff Writer Donald Jackson, who spent weeks searching out and interviewing the President's relatives, boyhood friends and old acquaintances. From an early age, Jackson writes, Nixon was "a serious child; he was never a giggler." Nixon's mother recalled: "Most boys go through a mischievous period; then they grow up and think they know all the answers. Well, none of these things ever happened...
...single fateful day, Fergus finds his past crowding in on him. Dead characters rise again as living hallucinations: his family, old priests, teachers, onetime loves, chance acquaintances, bygone neighbors, boyhood friends-even his boyhood self. Fergus had always justified all of his small sins for the capital gains of his novelistic art. This group of ghostly characters, convened like a kangaroo court, force him to weigh nothing less than the meaning of his life...
Years later, one boy has died and one man lives, possessed by memory. What were the voices saying? His musings ramify beyond the night swim, caught and made important by one of recollection's tricks, and now it is the whole period of his late boyhood that seems masked and mysterious...
Anyone's puzzle; everyone's novel: follow boyhood step by step, and try to fix the precise instant at which the enchanted became the ordinary. No writer solves the puzzle, which may account for its continued fascination. Novelist Paul Horgan might almost be playing with another man's board and pieces: a small dusty town in the Southwest; a sensitive young narrator who will live to be a writer; the narrator's friend, an athlete who falls to his death from the town's water tower; a rich widow who befriends the narrator and sends...
...tourists who crossed the Pedernales on a recent Sunday afternoon at the rate of one carload a minute, these are subjects in keeping with what they came to see-the severe rustic furniture, the tin drinking cups of a Texas boyhood, the hand-sewn sampler on L.B.J.'s nursery wall that says...