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...happens in a day. Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father...
Hardly 13, Arthur Fearon, a puny, whimpering, pinch-faced Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which...
...Stuttgart's Schwabischer Merkur, old Father Bogoyavlenski tells how Schoolboy Stalin, when baited by a scoffer with Russia's old rigmarole, "beat the impious one so mercilessly that he had to be sent to the hospital...
This he did, Schoolboy Stalin plausibly explained, in obedience to the injunction of an Orthodox Bishop who had said, "If you hear sacrilegious speech, close the mouth of the blasphemer with your hand." In mathematics, according to Father Bogoyavlenski, "Stalin always stood at the foot of the class. Asked to do a sum in addition, he said the answer was one thousand. 'Only one thousand?' the teacher inquired. 'Well then a million!'" retorted generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture...
...august New York Times appeared the following contribution, translated by a wide-awake Times correspondent from the French of a Neuchatel (Switzerland) schoolboy...