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...Texas hill country in the 19th century. Not for nothing: Caro is explaining why Johnson's farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough...
...live"; "Be bold. Be bold. Be not too bold." Another, often repeated, writes Thurman, was that the final word as to what you are really worth "lies with the opposite sex." That value was assayed in a series of lifelong flirtations, romantic failures and a doomed marriage to her cousin Bror Blixen. The couple quixotically exchanged Bror's family farm in Denmark for acreage in Kenya. Coffee growing, the young groom announced, was the only thing that had any future. He had wholly discounted his wife's genius...
Clay, 46, first came north with a cousin when he was 17. "We was trying all the plants we could walk to. My cousin was 18, but too thin, and I was too young. So we traded wallets, and I hired on in his name. They never noticed. He worked there a long time. Later on, I hired in at Ford. I was really tickled when I got my job. The super offered to buy me lunch. I said no, I have money, I'll buy my own lunch. That was 28 years...
Mozart spoke music more fluently than anyone else who ever lived. But he kept no journal and left no autobiography. There are, of course, his famous letters. He was always respectful and loving to the censorious Papa Leopold. For Maria Anna Thekla ("Bäsle"), the "little cousin" from Augsburg, he concocted an impish scatology ("Our arses shall be the symbol of our peacemaking!"), and his epistolary requests for from his generous friend Michael Puchberg read like a parody of abject pleading...
...many of the key purveyors of name wear have dipped their digits into the pool of men's under things. These include Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior and Bloomingdale's. Pierre Cardin, who has been called the ITT of designer merchandise, is readying his line, and even poor cousin Jockey, in an effort to clothe itself in the celebrity which accompanies designer wear has placed shots of largely unclothed Orioles' pitcher Jim Palmer in a number of national magazines...