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...Kicked Butch? With these fairly familiar ingredients, Robert Molloy (Pride's Way) has apparently set out to write a novel that would be to a Manhattan boyhood what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is to girlhood on the other side of the East River. All the embarrassments and humiliations of adolescence are here, with perhaps a few more than is customary: the pimples, the first long pants, the first dates, the first fights, the first sexual experiences, and the earnest attempts, quickly thwarted, to become a football star...
...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
...night late last month, Cheng Chien, defender of Changsha, slipped over the Communist lines, surrendered the city. In Canton, the Nationalists promptly-named Cheng's boyhood friend, Chen Ming-jen, to succeed him as defender of what was left of Hunan province. Said Chen: "I shall defend the nation and protect my native province...
...Reformer. From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness. He carried with him the Bible given him by his mother and read a chapter from it every day. He played football at the University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
Fumio Tanaka and Shosuke Matsumoto, both 24 and friends since boyhood, attended the same high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...