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...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
...unaware that his Muse was often mute to his friends. Even as a little lad, Plato was his teacher; and philosophy his friend. He recalls his preference for the tales of the ancient sages; and the disappointment of his nurse who loved to read him fairy tales. There was a story of a wise man who lived in a tub and told an emporor to stand out of his light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers...
...Vagabond and necessary for those who would come with him for as he is a poet of the open road so is he a votary of the real. For the real is imaginary; the imaginary is perfect. That was a thought which came to the Vagabond as a young lad; and one which he would hold as he cherishes his youth. Though the heart, the Vagabond has been told, doesn't wrinkle, still well he knows it becomes poor. For in youth all things are of the same importance; nothing escapes our attention; and dreams are more precious than facts...
...detector's graph showed, at this point, marked disturbance of breathing, pulse, blood pressure-presumptive evidence of a lie. Yet the lad was telling the truth. Patient questioning brought out that he had indeed not stolen a car, but that mention of "stealing" and "car" reminded him of the time when he had put only four gallons of fuel in the family automobile's tank, although his father had given him money for five. Hence his reaction...
...Realmleader was distressed at reports of misconduct by "The Perfect Nazi," Juergen Ohlsen. Two years ago Herr Ohlsen was picked as the perfect German racial type, starred as the hero of a Nazi propaganda film, The Hitler Lad Quex, who was supposed to epitomize all Nazi virtues. Last week Juergen ("Quex") Ohlsen faced prompt expulsion from the Hitler Youth Organization for playing tennis regularly with...