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...your apron strings. You make him think tennis, eat tennis, drink tennis and live for nothing else." Lew's mother, Mrs. Bonnie Hoad, who plays on the hard courts herself, chimed in: "Lew hasn't had a chance to relax since the Davis Cup last Christmas . . . A lad of that age needs more time to relax." Later Mrs. Hoad partly backed down, saying that Lew "now seems to be quite happy...
Giuseppe Sotgiu, 52, once a poor but very clever lad from Sardinia, had worked his way through school and taken a degree in jurisprudence with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse...
Sure enough, that afternoon just before the fifth form was due to fall out for cadet training (a period that Christopher particularly disliked), Headmaster Miller got the call. "This is Christopher's father," said a gruff voice over the phone. 'My lad has had the good fortune to be left Marlborough College, the prep school at Mill Hill. He would like to go over and have a look at the place. Is that all right with you?" So Christopher had his look, and when he got back to Forest at tea time, the whole student body began buzzing...
...here it's different." Just then a lad wearing a white cloth coat dropped a plate of meat on the table and asked how many wanted java. Six hands went...
...Morris was in his 20s when he gave this account. The world was a rather large oyster for a lad without money to swallow, but Jed was the kind who would swallow it whole even if he choked. He splashed on the Marxist ketchup, and washed it all down with huge gulps of sex. Every night, after a furious day on the intellectual make, "he was in a hurry to go to sleep so that he would wake up and it would be tomorrow...