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...boyhood spent in Oregon led McCord into painting because "painting water-colors somehow goes with the tude of fly-flshing." Since then, he been an avid painter and an enthusi fisherman...
...Griffin. It is a difficult role, for Christy's character does not so much develop as burst from revelation to revelation. Ingenuous cowardice erupts into lyric bragging, which suddenly becomes an adolescent protestation of love. Christy's final and most important change from bondage to freedom, from boyhood to manhood, is as unexpected as the rest. Griffin plays the part with extraordinary exuberance and intelligence; he achieves the clarity necessary if the play is to make sense. Occasionally, as in the love scene and in the final scene of the play, his exuberance becomes the rare power that makes...
...terms of the suspense that only those on the inside knew about at the time, but TIME has over the past weeks sought out dozens of people who knew John Glenn when, Ted Williams, the baseball player who served with Glenn in the Marines, a minister who was his boyhood companion in New Concord and remembers his enthusiasms for Glenn Miller and Buck Rogers, his old commanding officer in Korea, all provide chips of bright color that fit into the mosaic of Astronaut Glenn's life...
...evening, WOR gets farther out. At 11:15 Jean Shepherd comes on, a brilliant and undisciplined night sprite. A sort of oral abstract expressionist, Shepherd begins to talk, gains speed, and skims along by free association. He remembers his Indiana boyhood with a command of imagery so precise that he can spin into the air everything from the smell of an old-fashioned icebox to the guilty excitement of an adolescent boy looking through a stack of Breezy Story Magazines down in a corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind...
...does Hershey do it? Says Chair man Samuel F. Hinkle, 61, a folksy chemist who rose from plant manager to chief of the nation's biggest candymaker: "Our basic aim is to present the chocolate bar as you knew it in boyhood days. We wouldn't change the flavor for anything. And we try to keep the size as close as possible to the size of 40 years...