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Dried Milk Paid Better. Blackwood has been fascinated by what he calls "strange powers" since boyhood. The son of Sir Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., and Sydney, Duchess of Manchester, he was sent to Canada about 1890 to make his living as a farmer. Apparently his prim Victorian parents had little hope for a son who, at 20, read the Bhagavad Gita and claimed to be a Buddhist. He settled near Toronto and bought into a dairy partnership, but the enterprise soon failed. For the next nine or ten years he drifted around Canada and the U.S., losing what little money...
...achieved the greatest success a farmer can have: he kept his son on the farm. He did it by letting Dale earn his own money from boyhood on. A few years ago Gus cut Dale in on the hogs. Now they are in partnership, 50-50 on costs and profits. When Dale married, Gus sold him the back 80 and the house on it. This year Dale will finish paying his father the mortgage...
...attempt falls into two parts. The first part, which covers Stalin's dingy boyhood † and his youth as a Greek Orthodox seminarist and, later, a revolutionary political organizer and jailbird, suffers from lack of documentation. Trotsky scrupulously indicates the variegated reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...
Young Willie White was highly conscious of belonging to Emporia's "ruling class." So it is not surprising that about a quarter of his 669-page autobiography is a nostalgic recall of the golden goodness of 19th-Century, mid-American boyhood-the swimming hole, sleigh rides, girls, Indian scares, boy fights, boy jobs...