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...same civilized tone pervades this epistolatory collection-missives, telegrams and interoffice memos-thai ranges back to White's suburban boyhood in Westchester, N.Y., then follows him through careers as student, editorialist, humorist, farmer and, finally, retiree to the shores of Maine...
...wrote of his boyhood hero, a Scottish professional by the name of Willie Fernie, with a typical admixture of verve, literary allusions, and Ring Lardneresque sarcasm...
...lifelong Democrat, Vance is a product of the Eastern Establishment that regards foreign policy as its special purlieu. Son of an insurance executive (who was also a Democrat and who died when young Vance was five), he spent much of his boyhood in Clarksburg, W. Va., where he became friendly with John W. Davis, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1924. "I used to browse in Mr. Davis' law library," Vance once recalled. "I remembered the smell of bound leather and those wonderfully big shelves of law books." Vance was sent to the Kent School in Connecticut...
...President's family of fine Fords do pretty much what they want and go pretty much where they choose. Steve Ford, 20, who wants to be a rancher when he graduates from California State Polytechnic University, is touring scenic backwaters of the Far West with his boyhood friend Kevin Kennedy in a 27-ft. motor home, undismayed by the fact that the bears may outnumber the voters in some of these districts. Last week Steve pulled up in front of the Home Cafe in Dupuyer, Mont. (pop. less than 100), and before his order of pancakes had arrived found...
...priorities seem implicit in the autobiography that Carter wrote as he set out on his presidential quest. Yet despite his credentials-boyhood in and manhood return to South Georgia, a couple of terms in the state legislature, the governorship-how much of a Southern stamp does Carter really have? After all, he left Georgia at 18 for the U.S. Naval Academy, was exposed there to everything from ballroom dancing to naval strategy, followed that with windows on the non-Southern world in such places as Oahu, Hong Kong and Schenectady...