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Halves of a Ticket. The selections reflect Layman Bristol's wish to make the hymnal, intended primarily for children, a "happy book." To appeal to children, they have stressed hymns about Christ's boyhood and everyday life, e.g.,O Master of the Callous Hand, Bristol's own My Master Was a Worker...
...scamp but a fireballing politico who marries into money, gets elected to Parliament, enters the Cabinet and finally becomes Lord Nimmo, without ever losing his missionary zeal or his sense of political destiny. Except the Lord,* which takes Chester Nimmo back in point of time to his mid-Victorian boyhood and young manhood, asks, retrospectively, one central question: What made Nimmo...
...matter of Prewitt's masochistic devotion to the Army is, for example, never given much more of a basis than his muttered, "If it weren't for the Army, I wouldn't have learned how to bugle." The book had the space to go far back into Prewitt's boyhood, and thus give a more convincing picture of a man who had known but one family, one friend, one lover in his life, and that the Army. From Here to Eternity runs for a little less than two hours, and, considering the excellent material that had to be omitted...
...Girl Named Paquita. After a bucolic boyhood in Indiana, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (his real name) did indeed go west in a covered wagon. Hot with "Oregon fever," the Miller clan made the trek in 1852, but with most of Oregon to choose from, papa Miller, a hard luck farmer, staked out 320 arid acres. Restless and unhappy, Joaquin won his father's consent to go prospecting for "Californy gold." In later years, Joaquin claimed that he threw all but the biggest nuggets away, but his accounts show that he had a cash balance of $5.25 when he quit...
...commanded big fees as a consultant to the Piedmont textile industry. He went to Rome in 1946 as a parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance Ministry to help promote his hard-money policy. Pella took with him his boyhood concern for pennies and his businessman's love for the solid lira, and soon became De Gasperi's Finance Minister. To keep the lira stable, he fought tenaciously against many of his party who wanted vote-catching spending programs. Once, in 1951, he resigned rather than give...