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...choose between the two, I would be uncomfortable. Martin, for his part, avoids the role of petty raconteur, and concentrates on the Governor's record in state politics. Where Busch rambles on about boyhood trips to Europe and childhood experience, Martin sticks closely to public administration. I am bound to say, though, that Martin includes nothing on Stevenson's work in the AAA, the Navy Department, and the State Department, important and impressive parts of the Governor's career...
...Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter. The late editor of the unpublished Mark Twain Papers shows how much Clemens' youth contributed to the golden dream of boyhood in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TIME, Sept...
Mainly, and with no more stretch than a sly grin puts on a freckle, Huck was right. The golden dream of boyhood, the soft summer's day that Mark Twain invoked for the world in Tom and even more richly in Huck, was in fact an almost total recall of the halcyon days of his own childhood...
...Mark Twain, a redheaded little river rascal named Sam Clemens, with a gleam in his eye and a snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal, the story of Sam's Great American Boyhood is told for the first time in full detail by the late Dixon Wecter, editor of the still unpublished* Mark Twain Papers...
...glorious boyhood came to a close all too early. When he was eleven, his stern, unpractical father died a bankrupt, and after a year or so Sam was put to the printer's trade to help support the family. There was variety in the shop, all right (as when a cow wandered in one night, upset a tray of type, munched on several ink-rollers, wandered out again), but the golden days were almost over, and Sam began to wonder how he could ever get them back. Wecter's book leaves him still wondering, as he wondered...