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...most standards, Danny Simon has more than fulfilled his boyhood dreams of show-business success. But the brother with whom he shared those dreams has attained immeasurably more. As a result, says Danny, "I have been living so long with 'Neil Simon's brother' " -- sometimes, erroneously, with "Neil Simon's younger brother" -- "that I'm thinking of changing my name." He adds, with the grin of a borsch-belt comic trying a little too hard, "That always gets a laugh." In fact, there is often a tinge of sadness in Danny's jokes about the situation. He admits, "The more...
...iles of Paris at dawn, when rough-clad men hunker in the fog to hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...
...devotion to family was instilled in the Tisch brothers early on. Says Washington Journalist Elizabeth Drew, a first cousin: "They have been unshakably close since their boyhood." The boys grew up in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Their father owned a small boys' clothing company as well as two summer camps in New Jersey. After graduating from N.Y.U. at 18, Larry earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1946, after his brief stay at Harvard Law School, Larry and Bob persuaded their father to help them buy a Lakewood, N.J., resort hotel called Laurel...
After Exeter's 1981 celebration, Stephenson took a job in the Harvard development office and began work on the sesquitercentenary. Several months ago, Stephenson, speaking in the slight Southern drawl since his North Carolina boyhood, described the move to Harvard as "a homecomming...
...thankful that the offerings departed from their current fascination with four-sleeved sweaters or garish prints. Castelbajac may in fact have disappointed those who longed for something more controversial. His chasubles are translucent to splash bright colors on the white albs underneath, evoking the stained-glass windows of his boyhood memory. ("God was light," he recalls.) The outsize cross symbols are certainly traditional enough, inspired as they were by clothing that St. Louis wore during the Seventh Crusade. More outre, Courreges offered a white-and- silver jumpsuit with epaulets, just the thing for missionaries to Mars...