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Memoirs of a Lonely Boyhood, by Robert Kennedy
NYACK, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: Menasha Skulnik in Carl Reiner's remembrance of Jewish boyhood, Enter Laughing...
...first was a reception for delegates to the White House Conference on Natural Beauty (see following story), at which Johnson once again reverted to reminiscing about his Texas boyhood: "All my life I have drawn strength and something more from those Texas hills. Sometimes, in the highest councils of the nation, in this house. I sit back and I can almost feel that rough, unyielding, sticky clay soil between my fingers, and it stirs memories that often give me comfort and sometimes give me a pretty firm purpose...
Your Cheatin' Heart, like many another mediocre film biography, threatens a legend with oblivion. Based on the life of Singer Hank Williams, Heart throbs to the proper words and music but misses the chaotic inner rhythm of a man who rose from boyhood poverty in Alabama to become the idolized author of such country-and-western hits as Jambalaya, Cold, Cold Heart, and the movie's title tune. Williams lived hard, worked hard and drank hard until the January day in 1953 when he leaned back in his white Cadillac and died of a heart attack...
...incredible drive for perfection, the unending concern for his patients, the utter domination of his life by his profession, have won Michael Ellis DeBakey the nickname of "the Texas Tornado." The TV scriptwriter who created such a character would sooner or later conjure up flashbacks to a boyhood in the family drugstore and an early love for medicine. In DeBakey's case, his life outdoes such fiction...