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With little sentimentality and few false notes, Conroy, now 31 and a freelance writer, describes a kind of Huck Finn-Holden Caulfield boyhood and coming of age in Florida, Connecticut and Manhattan, in the midst of a rather eccentric family. It is the most obvious of themes, but Conroy brings it off remarkably well, with an almost archaic narrative skill...
...complains, "mother-killers, grandmother-killers, sixth-year graduate students and spitballers who threw at your head; but I had never run up against people so lacking in the human graces." He found that New York literary types were not much better. One after another, the idols of his boyhood came tumbling down when he met them in the flesh...
...WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, WITH HARRY REASONER (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Rose Kennedy conducts a tour of the late President's boyhood home in Brookline, Mass., on "JFK-The Childhood Years: A Memoir for Television by His Mother...
...Bearden, a heavyset, light-skinned Negro, what was missing was an adequate portrayal of the worlds he had grown up in and knew best-the farm life of the sharecropper in the South, where he was born, the tense, raucous life of his boyhood in Harlem, where his father was a city health inspector, and Boston, where as a youth Bearden played pro baseball in the Negro leagues. The 15 works on display at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom gallery are meant to fill in the gap. They range from scenes outside sharecroppers' shanties (see color opposite) and springtime...
Alumni Club. Teledyne's chairman insists that his company's growth-sales have increased an average 124% a year -has been "strictly along conservative lines," But such things are relative. Singleton spent his boyhood moonily reading about such captains of industry as J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. After three years at the U.S. Naval Academy, he transferred to M.I.T., where he eventually earned a doctorate in electrical engineering. In 1950, he got a job working on rocket-fire control at Hughes Aircraft-which Singleton now calls "Howard Hughes College" in recognition of the success achieved...