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...this new humility, Lindbergh has rediscovered a reverence for wildlife that traces back to his farm boyhood in Minnesota. He has become a director of the World Wild Life Fund, works at fund raising and even writes his own pulling letters ("Let us not be a generation recorded in future histories as destroying the irreplaceable inheritance of life formed through eons past"). He continues his interest in medicine, spends a lot of his time in a laboratory at the Navy's medical-research center in Bethesda, Md., working on new equipment with patience and precision...
...prolific writer of adventure stories, Author Harris knows his way around a war and, in particular, the chaotic landscape of a routed army. His military men are simple enough to recall George Henty, the turn-of-the-century bard of boyhood. But Harris is so skillful that he keeps the suspense mounting in the best of two action worlds: the battlefield and the law courts...
...this first novel, Chaim Potok, 38, editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America and graduate cum laude of a New York Jewish boyhood, brews up a hearty bowl of the same old chicken soup whose recipe was laid down a generation ago by Henry Roth in Call It Sleep and Daniel Fuchs in his Summer in Williamsburg trilogy. Potok, however, adds a slightly different flavor: the conflict of his youthful protagonists is resolved against the waning days of World War II on the home front-a back ground that, in the hands of novelists of all creeds, is becoming...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Trilogy: The American Boy," three short films that capture the precarious moments of youth entering manhood. Skaterdater, an 18-minute Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner, careens along on a skateboard; The River Boy and Reflections move the viewer from a Louisiana bayou boyhood to life in New York City...
...After a boyhood surrounded by his parents' Boston friends and graduation from Harvard College in 1928, Howe turned at first to a different world, that of film making. He joined Paramount Pictures as a second assistant director and worked on pictures with Jimmy Durante and Fred Allen. Soon, however, Howe was back in Cambridge at the Law School...