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...Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas, 51, suffered his near-fatal accident on Washington's Crystal Mountain (TIME, Oct. 10), he was no Eastern greenhorn in search of a thrill, but a mountain-climbing veteran who could trace his experience all the way back to his Yakima, Wash, boyhood. "Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting a pack...
...answers reach much farther back than five years. Koerner's paintings are invariably based on what he observes, plus what he remembers. And his most persistent memories relate to his boyhood in Vienna. In his best work, he achieves a dramatic merger of the things he sees with his eyes and the memories he sees in his mind. The results are apt to be more meaningful than pictures by those who paint only from observation, and more convincing than the work of artists who paint just what they find in their heads...
...work advanced himself to master of clipper ships. But at a time when "our proud fleet of clipper ships was an anachronism," Skipper Slocum doggedly refused to switch to steam. By the 1890s he was without a ship and facing forced retirement. He began to think of his old boyhood dream of sailing alone around the world...
...Soviet machine in action. By 1939., when Coming Up for Air appeared, he was deep in his personal war with everything political and technological that threatened individual freedom. In Coming Up, Hero George Bowling is Britain's average little man, trying desperately to recapture his boyhood England that no longer exists. Orwell loved his hero but worried about his moral caliber. In 1939 he was afraid that George Bowling would be a pushover for the superstate boys. He wasn't, but ten years later Orwell was still afraid that Bowling's kids could be the trained robots...
Hoagy had had the inspiration for the tone poem in his memory since boyhood. He was born in Bloomington, six miles from hilly, rural Brown County, and often went there on fall outings. Brown County in Autumn had "written itself," he said, "just like any song that I compose." It was melodic "because I'm a melody man and I've always thought there should be a little more melody for the average symphony patron." It opened with a slightly somber daybreak. The music went into full action with the purples and reds of the leaves, rose...