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Charles W. Latimer, a boyhood friend of the President's in Independence, Mo., came all the way from his present home in Tampa, Fla., just to shake hands. And there was Bryce B. Smith, longtime (1930-40) mayor of Kansas City under the Boss Pendergast regime...
Last week, Charley Ross was both elated and worried by the abrupt offer of his boyhood chum. If he accepted, he would have his finger on an exciting piece of history. Still, the job was a well-known heartbreaker, and it paid only $10,000 a year (Ross gets $35,000 from the P-D). Besides, Publisher Pulitzer was dead against his leaving...
...heir John J. Espey, these scenes of Shanghai childhood seemed nothing out-of-the-way - until his parents brought him home to the U.S. in 1930 (he now teaches English at Los Angeles Occidental College). Minor Heresies is a gay and graceful account of his exotic boyhood...
...scarlet-lined cape, with a brilliant plume in his campaign hat, is no mere coincidence. Colonel Mosby lived until 1916. He was a friend of Patton's father, whose own father had died with his Confederate boots on in the Battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel Mosby was the boyhood idol of George Patton, who made up his mind at age seven that he was going to be a U.S. Army officer...
Even in his old age, friends & foes claimed that Lloyd George could still "talk a bird out of a tree." Last summer he returned to the 400-year-old farmhouse of his boyhood for his "last days." He finally accepted an earldom from a grateful government (TIME, Jan. 8). Of him Winston Churchill said: "There is no history like his in living memory. . . . Indeed, history will have to return her pages back to Chatham to find his parallel...