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Born Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard 58 years ago ("Just say I was born and progressed in the 17th century"), he was educated by convent nuns, packed off to Sydney University to study medicine. After one year he hooked up in musical shows "as a pimply novice" with his boyhood idol, Actress Elliott. In 1935 Madge and Cyril, dubbed by Noel Coward "the singing Lunts," were married "with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply...
...Sherman's line of march. Of her four sons, "Bernie" was the "mamma's boy," shy, chubby (his nickname was "Bunch"), quick-tempered and invariably beaten in a fight, a failing he later remedied by taking boxing lessons. As Baruch recalls it, it was a Tom Sawyerish boyhood in which he splashed after bullfrogs in the lazy creeks, or sprawled on the floor of a kitchen-turned-school-house learning to read while the teacher cradled her nursing infant...
...Francophile father had been killed fighting with the Germans against the French. His own fate is equally clouded. With no faith or much hope he fights as a young officer against the Reds. Symbolically, the fortunes of war drive him to Kratovits, where he had spent a happy boyhood as a friend of Conrad, heir to the Counts of Reval. For Conrad and Erick there is nothing to do but to fight on fatalistically. Conrad is all gallantry, but his sister Sophie almost welcomes the destruction of their life...
...today's scion of the Times, Norman Chandler is neither blusterous nor ruthless, casually fingers the Times lanyard with a friendly urbanity where his predecessors might well have shot the town to blazes. Under his father's no-nonsense hand, Norman plowed through boyhood farm chores, rode the range and punched cattle for a few happy years on the family's 300,000-acre El Tejon Ranch 75 miles north of Los Angeles, went to Stanford University (business administration). In 1922 he married Fellow Student Dorothy Buffum ('"Buffie"), dutifully settled down for a rough tour...
...months it may be Havana or San Juan; the rest of the time it is Chicago, where Spies heads Northwestern University's department of nutrition and metabolism. Since his school days, pellagra has been almost completely banished from the U.S. And, for this gain in health, his boyhood neighbors have nobody to thank more than Tom Spies...