Word: schoolboy
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...countryside. An eccentric old woman had built Avon Old Farms as the spit & image of a Cotswold village, with carefully warped roofs, rippled window panes, synthetically worn stairs. She had meant it for a boys' school. There were no students at Avon last week. The only sign of schoolboy life was a boy named Butch, busy tacking up college pennants in a monklike cubicle in one of the dormitories, installing model airplanes, and littering up the joint after the fashion of twelve-year-olds...
...that people have unexpected reservoirs of sordidness and evil. But even more exposed, and perhaps more deeply hurt, are the adult innocents, who have sat out their lives in habitual disappointment or in cocoons of selfdelusion. In one of the best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin...
...Drohan, ranking diver who lost only once this year in regular competition, has an outside chance to knock off Sper, a consistent winner ever since his schoolboy days...
Died. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg shorthand; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He developed his own shorthand as a note-taking schoolboy in Ireland, published his first manual at 20, came to the U.S. to teach five years later, lived to see his system taught in an estimated 95% of U.S. commercial and public schools...
...human picture that it triumphs-a human picture in which frustration lives on delightful if not always convincing terms with farce. Tempers get sharper as everything else on the AK 601 gets duller. Denied the simpler masculine pleasures, guys cook up the most elaborate schoolboy pranks; the brinier the life, the earthier the lingo...