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Lawrence's father, a railroad cook, suddenly disappeared one day when his son was only seven, but his mother was able both to support the boy and let him develop his budding talent. "Most kids,'' says Lawrence of his boyhood, "draw and paint and write poetry - I simply never stopped." In Harlem he spent hours making actors' masks and tiny stage sets, and he began working with the Negro artist Charles Alston. Like many of his generation, he was able to stick to his painting by getting on the Federal Art Project during the Depression...
Great Compromiser. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn decided way back in boyhood that he was going to be Speaker of the House some day. and he early set about making his dream come true. He got elected to Congress in 1912, at 30, after serving six years in the Texas state legislature. He became House Speaker in 1940, has held that post ever since except for the two intervals. 1947-48 and 1953-54, when the Republicans had a majority in the House. By virtue of his early start, plus sheer longevity, Rayburn has established two records that, apart from his other...
Life Is a Game. "I've remained a boy at heart," said Gilbert, "I've introduced only items that appealed to me-and I figured they would appeal to all boys." Gilbert's long boyhood began in Salem, Ore., where he won his first contest-a tricycle race-when he was seven, and immediately began to form the philosophy that ruled his life: "Everything in life is a game, and the important thing is to win." A frail boy, Gilbert built himself into a superb athlete, became an expert at wrestling, track, bag punching, pole vaulting...
Alan Berger's story, "Doggy," is a serious and powerful work. Insanity lies below the surface of the narrator's boyhood reminiscences about Doggy, the fat Jewish boy, the butt of all the gang's hostility in their parody of World War II movies. The emphasis in the story shifts from Doggy's role in the gang to Doggy's relationship with his mother, and finally to the mother herself. I hesitate to disclose any part of the carefully worked out plot with its sudden, horrible revelations, or to point out the occasional overly poetic verbosity which threatens the casual...
...morning. Once, in a moment of rare relaxation, Felt, a crack poker player, summed up his basic attitude in a paraphrase from Mister Dooley: "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards." Hunting & Homework. Don Felt learned the beginnings of his furious discipline from his mother. Through most of his boyhood she beat down the familiar pattern of juvenile revolt-his preference for hunting rather than homework, athletics instead of afternoon classes. Under her watchful eye young Don got good, if not spectacular, grades. The pattern continued after the family moved from Kansas to Washington, D.C., and when there...