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Tall (6 ft. 3), slim, shy Howard Robard Hughes is a rich man's son: his father invented a high-speed oil drill, left a multimillion-dollar fortune. But Howard Hughes has never coasted on his inheritance. He showed a technician's touch even in boyhood, built his own motorcycle and radio set, invented a pretty good shock absorber, got admitted to California Institute of Technology for special courses before he was old enough to enroll as a regular student...
...first won military distinction by applying his science on the battlefield. At McGill University, after boyhood on the Saskatchewan frontier, he studied for a commission in Canada's small peacetime army while he also distinguished himself as a student of electricity. In 1914 he was a major in a battery of field artillery; he left his job in a McGill laboratory to go to France. In 1918 he was a brigadier general, commanding the Canadian Corps' heavy artillery...
...Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which first exploded upon the white man's world in the year when Itagaki graduated from the Military Academy...
Everts and Manchester both of whom are from Newton, have kept up their boyhood doubles combination even though they went to different colleges, and last week it was brought to a successful consummation...
...because of an idea of rotund-faced, baldish Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. As he explains it, "I want people to get the message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing musical portraits, sketching...