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...born of peasants, 54 years ago. in the brown hills of Thessaly, and he was one of 13 children. The old people of his town, Dobvitsa, still remember his huge boyhood appetite, and his way of wandering alone in the mountains. They tell a story of how he came to the church and, through it, to power...
...correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...
After an Ohio boyhood (his father was an ironworker in Columbus) LeMay went to Ohio State University, was near to graduating when he quit to be a flying cadet in the Army. In due course he became a fighter pilot (later as an Army officer he went back to Ohio, got his degree). Once, when he was stationed at Self ridge Field, Mich., he almost quit the Air Corps to fly trimotored planes for Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This...
Looking for Father. Every popular novel retells some ancient fairy tales. The Alger novel for boys, which is really one book with 130 different titles, is no exception. But the fairy story it repeats is not Jack the Giant Killer, which Alger read in his own boyhood - the eternal fable of the bright boy who made good...
...left school at 14, after fisticuffs with the teacher, to become a U.P. janitor and call boy. He had no boyhood to speak of, only work. His unboylike ambition was some day to become president...