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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patrick Kingsgrant is a junior at Harvard, class of '51, and a freshman at life. His right arm was slightly crippled at birth, so Pat goes out for the football team and damages his right knee. This test of manhood merely inflames his ego; he enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Tired Young Men | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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