Word: boyhoods
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...more notable recruit from the ranks of bestselling authors who will join the fall parade of children's-book writers is H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. In A King's Son, the duke will cover a subject no man knows better, his own boyhood as Prince of Wales...
...From boyhood, when he lay in a Racine (Wis.) attic gobbling Shakespeare, Hecht regarded the world simply as a mint for the coining of "words" and "phrases." Most young bibliophiles "take sides" pas sionately when they read a book, regard less of whether they understand all the words, but young Hecht managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn...
...which the Attorney-General heads, has rarely been used as a political bureau. Its function is to enforce federal statutes and to represent the Government in court. But Brownell has been the most political Attorney-General yet. Part of the reason for this lies in the man. Ever since boyhood, when his hobby was collecting campaign buttons, everything Brownell has touched has turned to politics. He became the chief strategist for New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey back in the 1930's, when the two fought against the "white-shoe" faction of the New York County Republican committee...
From his early boyhood, Ray always wanted to have a job of some kind, although he did not have to work. At times this was embarrassing to the comfortably situated Jenkins family. One crisis came when Grandfather John Canada Jenkins, a revenuer known to his friends as "Can," came to Tellico Plains with his second bride. Widowed in middle age, Can had written to seven matrimonial agencies, had wooed and won a mail-order bride from Kentucky, and planned to bring her to Tellico Plains on the Sunday morning ,train. At the time, Ray was running a shoeshine stand...
...thought at first that they were in the wrong town. Crimson banners bearing the hammer & sickle and Picasso peace doves hung from street lights, and Marxist slogans were plastered on the centuries-old walls of the Church of the Annunciation. Turbaned Communist orators belabored street-corner crowds. Nazareth, the boyhood home of Jesus Christ, was electing 15 city councilmen...