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...picture will be, to say the least, disappointed. As written, Huck was a young river rat who lived in a wharf barrel and smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor blemish as they contemplate the moviemakers' supreme achievement: from...
...linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country home in which he spent his boyhood; flying through murderous anti-aircraft fire, he recalls dreamily a childhood game of running through raindrops. Unbelieving readers may take these passages as literary inventions after the fact; Biographer Migeo suggests convincingly that they probably occurred to Saint-Ex just as he said they...
...Boyhood. One of his heroes is flame-bearded Uncle Barbarossa, a dynamiter by trade who in off-hours spouts revolutionary speeches at his aged beagle Garibaldi. When the time comes for the ailing dog to be destroyed. Uncle Barbarossa is determined that "General Gari baldi shall not die a bourgeois death" but exit gloriously in an explosive blast. He corsets the dog with two sticks of dynamite, buries him in a snowbank and lights the fuses. But faithful Garibaldi lopes after his master, and half of West Hoboken scrambles for dear life. The animal goes out with a bang...
...goes so far as to have a child by him. Mama's triumph is brief; short weeks later, Papa is pinned to death under a collapsing wall. As the keening women cluster about the open coffin, Paolino seems to hear in their voices a lament for his dead boyhood...
Died. Keyes Winter, 81, boyhood Indianapolis neighbor of Booth Tarkington and model for Penrod, who became a Manhattan lawyer and for 19 years a judge of New York City's municipal court; of a heart attack; in Syosset...