Word: lemelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luxembourg, after a long stay in a Swiss hospital, when she wrote me. She found a stack of copies of TIME awaiting her, and proceeded to go through them. One article that caught her attention was the letter I wrote to you about TIME'S Quebec correspondent, Roger Lemelin (TIME, Aug. 18), and she was struck by the number of ways in which his experiences paralleled...
...always good to be made aware that others have problems too and to learn how they overcome and master them. 'Bite where the apple is good' [Lemelin's expression]-I shall start biting very hard...
...Lemelin grew up in the dingy St.-Sauveur district of Quebec's Lower Town. He describes his mother as "the most beautiful girl in St.-Sauveur" and his father as "a wonderful man who bought me a rebuilt typewriter for $80, at installments of $5 a month." Lemelin's business acumen and his taste for literature showed themselves almost simultaneously. At 14, he organized a group of boys to shovel snow off doorsteps, at 5? each. In the process, he stumbled across a large building filled with books - the provincial library - and, upon inquiring, learned he could borrow...
...Lemelin had won the junior ski-jumping championship of Quebec and had started to become a promising local boxer. While practicing for the Canadian skiing championships, however, he fell and broke his left ankle. A resulting infection helped keep him in the hospital eleven months...
...Lemelin came home on crutches, adopted the slogan "Bite the apple where it is still good," developed a technique of bicycling with one foot and changed his swimming style so he could swim three miles a day. In 1941 Lemelin got a job as office manager of his uncle's lumber mill. When he had saved $200, he went to a well-known Quebec surgeon, who suggested an operation for his leg. Meanwhile, Lemelin had been writing a novel, Au Pied de la Pente Douce (The Town Below), which he submitted to the provincial literary contest. The novel didn...