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...schoolboy, he developed double pneumonia and nearly died, weakened by brutal beatings from his schoolmaster. At 18, falling from a bridge, Churchill ruptured a kidney and was unconscious for three days; six years later, he dislocated his shoulder falling down a flight of stairs in India...
...German Unity Day, as it is called, East Germany protested to the U.S., Britain and France that this would be a "provocative" act. But it was an East German border guard who did most to raise Berlin's blood pressure. When a twelve-year-old East Berlin schoolboy named Wolfgang Gloede approached the barbed wire opposite the U.S. sector, the Vopo opened fire with a machine pistol. West Berliners had to watch helplessly as the dying boy was dragged back from the wire and left unattended for an hour until an ambulance came. He died...
...critical appraisal of Lord of the Flies that impressed him came from an English schoolboy who went to an island near Puerto Rico last year to make a movie based on the book. Wrote the little boy from the idyllic island, surrounded by his happy peers and pampered by his producer : "I think Lord of the Flies stinks. I can't imagine what I'm doing on this filthy island, and it's all your fault." In Golding's view, a perfectly cast savage...
...Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell in love with a companion in espionage (Lilli Palmer), how he was betrayed by a nasty Nazi schoolboy but was rescued and smuggled to Sweden...
...twelve, he was jotting down his own verses for folk melodies. One day in 1945 he heard a group of washerwomen singing his lyrics. "That did it." says he. "From then on I was poetry-struck." After wartime evacuation to Zima, he made goalkeeper on an all-Moscow schoolboy team and signed up for professional soccer. Day before he was to report for training, Soviet Sport published his first poem to see print, and Zhenya turned his sights on literature's big league. He started turning out poems "like pancakes." mostly flat odes to stock Stalinist subjects. ("Very...