Word: boyhoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sorcerer & Apprentice. There is no precedent for failure in Charles Erwin Wilson's career. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was principal of the local public school, Erwin Wilson (as his friends called him) had a traditional boyhood: the swimming hole, a pony, stolen rides on railroad handcars, improvised shows in a neighbor's barn (with Erwin Wilson as the magician). The Wilson family moved to Pittsburgh in 1904. At Pittsburgh's Bellevue High and later at Carnegie Tech, Erwin was a fair to middling athlete (basketball and football), and a bright and dogged...
Jersey Joe Walcott's age is variously estimated at 39 (by Jersey Joe) to 46 (by boyhood acquaintances). By either estimate, he is too old a party to be fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. Last week, nonetheless-largely because TV audiences will stand for anything billed as a prize fight-the sturdy old Negro was put into the ring with Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, 28. It was a triumph neither for the sponsor (Gillette Safety Razor Co.), for the autocratic matchmakers (International Boxing Club), nor for the heavy-footed contestants...
...Moon and the Bonfires is a return-of-the-native story in which Author Pavese develops a familiar 20th century theme, the need for roots. After 20 years of roaming, some of it in the U.S., his nameless narrator-hero comes back to the Piedmontese village of his boyhood. Born a bastard, he gets no prodigal's welcome, but the villagers who remember him are deferential before his hard-won rise to respectability. Wifeless and childless, he has few bonds with the future, is bent only on uncovering his links with the past...
Only the hard-bitten earth, the taste of bread and cheese, and boyhood's memories seem to have kept their force for the wanderer. Author Pavese writes of each of these with simple eloquence: "How often I'd seen the noisy carts go by, with women and boys lined up on them, going to the feast, to the fair, going to the merry-go-rounds . . . while I stayed...
Died. Walter Brookins, 64, earliest of U.S. aviation's surviving Early Birds; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A boyhood neighbor of Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton. Ohio, he became their first pupil, soloed after 2½ hours' instruction, taught scores of American pilots to fly, including the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Retiring in 1919, he began manufacturing aircraft parts, helped in the development of World War II's 6-24 Liberator bomber...