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Hawkins was a prig and a puritan, horrified at Johnson's well-known frailties of flesh and soul. He knew Johnson when Bozzy was still a schoolboy. But Boswell says truthfully enough that "from the rigid formality of his manners, it is evident that [Hawkins and Johnson] never could have lived together with companionable ease and familiarity." When Hawkins resigned from Johnson's famous Literary Club after a short membership. Dr. Johnson wryly pronounced him "unclubbable," and the tag has stuck...
...Road Past Mandalay is a sequel to Bugles and a Tiger, published in 1956, in which Masters told how a schoolboy became a soldier. The new book tells how the soldier became a man. After eight years in the army, the 28-year-old Masters was assigned in 1943 to the Long Range Penetration force commanded by the famed and fanatical Orde Wingate. "You're going to die," Wingate rasped at one of the men, and the prediction seemed likely. Supplied entirely by air, the brigade was to go 150 miles behind the Japanese lines in Burma and stage...
...Lanfranc. a 700-student vocational high school in the sprawling London suburb of Croydon. Led by agile Wicket-keeper Trevor Cowdell, 15, and Captain-elect John Wells, 14. Lanfranc's cricket team was unbeatable, the best in all Surrey. Sixteen-year-old Reggie Chappie won a Surrey schoolboy boxing Championship. Fourteen-year-old Quentin Green made a memorably squeaky-voiced page in Lanfranc's production of Romeo and Juliet. But for 34 Lanfrancians, the best was yet to be: a school-sponsored camping trip in the rugged highlands of Norway...
...track and field stars had seldom looked better. Villanova's muscular Frank Budd sprinted 100 yds. in 9.2 sec. to smash Mel Patton's 1948 world record, oldest on the books. No fewer than 13 pole vaulters scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John...
...Kansas City Athletics had to go to $125,000 to land Pennsylvania Schoolboy Lew Krausse Jr., 18, although his own father was scouting him for the A's. A week after he was signed, Lew shut out the Los Angeles Angels 4-0 on three hits, and last week he had a two-hit shutout going before the Boston Red Sox scored three runs in the seventh to beat...