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...Good Soldier. Like many of Himmlers SS men, Hoess was devoted to his wife and children, loved animals and dreamed of farming as a livelihood. He had a bucolically innocent boyhood in southern Germany. Burning with adolescent patriotism, he saw action in World War I before he was 16, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class, and wore a noncom's stripes when he was 17. A restless postwar rebel, he joined the Freikorps, a kind of guerrilla band that refused to accept the peace of Versailles. He was an accessory in a political murder, served six years...
...couch, it often takes on the look of a private hell, where the only fun is in being singed. Most adults know-that childhood is not really so bad. It hurts, of course, but it has its compensations-often wispy and ungraspable by memory. In his autobiography of boyhood in an English village, 45-year-old British Poet Laurie Lee shows that his childhood is still with him, like a second self. The Edge of Day has a shine that is as foreign to contemporary books about boyhood as the first years of this century are to the present...
Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...bony pluck of poverty in his time, a lot of the story is pure hokum. Today the Senator has an income of some $30,000 a year, two homes, two automobiles, and Italian-style cuffs on the sleeves of his stylish suits. Nor was he born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen...
What Thou Wilt. Apart from Mamma's quirks, Havelock's boyhood in Surrey was uneventful to the point of torpor. The boy was a bookworm; the man would be a cultural boa constrictor gorged with print. He had four sisters and an absentee sea-captain father; Ellis would be woman-handled most of his life. Papa interrupted his son's reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough...