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...planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared in an earthly orphanage, he grew to manhood, felt his oats, dedicated his life to helping those in need. In the eight months of his existence as a daily comic-strip character, Superman...
...furies of the late Thomas Wolfe made him seem like some frenzied Wagnerian hero condemned to live in a nursery. In his autobiographical Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, he recorded only the emotions of his childhood and adolescence, the first intellectual awakenings of his young manhood. What passions, readers asked themselves, what intensities of brooding, pain and rhetoric would Thomas Wolfe show himself evincing in his first serious love affair? The possibilities were slightly awesome to contemplate...
...middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum; a freshman roommate hipped on the Law of Moses and Henry George's single tax; a picturesque Wobbly pal in the Northwest wheatfields one summer; a sociology instructor who took him along when he moved to a professorship at Columbia...
...boyhood took place on September 8, 1883, near Helena, Mont., when in the presence of Indians, Civil War generals, Cabinet officers, editors, barons, ambassadors and financiers, his father drove the spike that completed the Northern Pacific. Three months later his father was bankrupt. Biggest event of Villard's manhood was the collapse of Wilsonian liberalism. Between these two catastrophes he studied in Germany, took over his father's paper, the New York Evening Post, when he was 25, fought for woman suffrage and good government, backed Wilson so ardently that disillusion was twice as bitter when it came...
...which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...