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...Drink & Be Merry. Jesse Unruh has come a long way from his boyhood on a cotton farm in Swenson, Texas (pop. 98). The Unruhs were hard-working sharecroppers. Nettie Unruh cut her three sons' hair all through high school, and when it came to buying clothes, all that the boys could expect were pants and shirts. ("Underwear," explains Jesse Unruh, "was just something to waste money on.") As a teenager, Jesse made his way to Los Angeles, got a job as a riveter at Douglas Aircraft. During World War II he served in Texas and the Aleutians...
...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...Side. The first miracle involves his own nature. He lived in dreams, and as a man of 58 he still knows the boyhood truth that all children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into...
...would have been unfortunate had this been otherwise, for by temperament Amon Carter was out of the Old West himself. His collecting began one day in 1928 when a Manhattan art dealer showed him six watercolors and an oil by Russell that reminded Carter of the Texas of his boyhood. Though he was not yet rich, he promptly wrote a $7,500 note, paid it in installments over the next two years...