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Brilliant Beginning. At West Point, Taylor played varsity tennis, met a girl named Lydia Happer, whom he married in 1925, and graduated fourth in the class of 1922. Like many top-ranking graduates, Taylor chose the engineers-as had his boyhood idol, Robert E. Lee-and began his brilliant career. For most Army officers, the '20s and '30s were drab years of no activity and few promotions. Taylor was a lieutenant for 13 years, but he led the lively life reserved for the outstanding young officer-language study in both France and Japan, a tour as an instructor...
Romantic Wallowing. "Sigi" Jung (nicknamed from the Schwyzerdütsch pronunciation of his initials), only son of a Reformed Church pastor, had a lonely, bookish boyhood in Basel. His father began teaching him Latin at six. In adolescence he wallowed in the German romantics. He read Greek and Sanskrit and steeped himself in philosophy. He thought of becoming an archaeologist. To please his father he took up medicine-and began digging into the minds of patients...
...step in life you Freshmen are now taking," a College dean told his audience, "is from boyhood into manhood." It was essentially the same speech Harvard freshmen had heard for years and would continue to hear for years to come, but to several hundred young men gathered in Phillips Brooks House September 27, 1907, it was an immensely serious speech...
...journalist, can Jang out a newspaper column for years in an average daily elapsed time of eleven minutes (so Newspaperman Ruark has coasted; one suspects the creative memory is an aid in recounting the feat). Or he can put together two volumes of yarns about his boyhood and overgrown-boyhood that have the virtues, and all of the faults, of good, whiskyish, late-evening reminiscence...
...freighter, and about the Old Man's tactful peace overtures to a Boy who has run away and who wishes his pride allowed him to run home again. It may occur to the reader that what the author has preserved is not merely leaf pressings of his own boyhood. The time has passed already, for instance, when most boys in the U.S. dreamed for three months a year of the opening of quail season. For that matter, the time has passed already when an African safari was something more than a long bus ride. It is well known that...