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Aubrey Menen is a half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...
Johnny Ray, a 25-year-old Oregon lad with an inordinate love of salt water in small quantities, has just set something of a record in the music business. In eight fast weeks, his recording of Cry (with The Little White Cloud That Cried on the other side) has sold 1,000,000 copies. Singer Ray's gimmick: tears...
...only by providing the rink, but by putting up the schoolboy skaters at the Prospect Street eating clubs. Every effort is made by the Princeton sports hierarchy to insure that when the athletes to the North. Old Nassau will not be forgotten--say in June, when the lad picks his college. It is not coincidental that several Exeter stars bound for Harvard last year changed their choice after the Lawrenceville (sic) tournament. It may not be pour le sport, but it's all legal...
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was a chilly 18th Century aristocrat, diplomat and wit, whose famous letters to his son, designed to make the lad a blue chip off the old block, immortalized their author instead. Reared in the Age of Reason, Chesterfield also became its perfect symbol: a man who saw his time steadily, but never saw through...
...Black Road is a reminder th.it prodigal sons rarely change their spots. It takes Pa Ederly a minute to recognize the jazzy-looking lad who has walked into his general store. Then his eyes blink back the tears. "Well, I-I see you've grown some. But then, you do grow some between 15 and 23." Before the day is out, Prodigal Son Davie is acting like a new broom, ordering the store front painted bright red, plate glass for the big window, the latest finery for his mother...