Word: schoolboys
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...Beachcomber (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists). Asked who discovered the South Sea Islands, a schoolboy once replied: "Somerset Maugham." He was right, of course. Captain Cook found some geographical points, but he missed the emotional one that Sadie Thompson and Ginger Ted, the supreme remittance man in all literature, have supplied to millions. Ted is back again in this second screen version of The Beachcomber. This time Actor Robert Newton sees, as Charles Laughton in the 1939 version failed to, the low, colonial swank of the fellow, and plays it for the snickers it deserves...
...book, young Radiguet told the story of an adolescent schoolboy in World War I who had fallen in love with a woman three years his senior whose husband was away at the front. The townsfolk of Saint-Maur, reading the story of illicit passion, remembered that the young author himself had been seen often in the company of a local schoolteacher named Alice, a married woman some years older...
...brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
...Schoolboy Knew. In Egypt the literary approach is still the most useful. Egypt was conquered about 1800 B.C. by the Hyksos, a crude Asian people. Much of the information about this period was suspect because it came from a schoolboy's exercise tablet. Egyptologists debated whether the schoolboy's tale was a partial copy of a grownup text (like copying the Gettysburg Address) or whether it was a patriotic composition out of the boy's own head...
...schoolboy was vindicated in 1939, when part of the same story was found carved on stone at Karnak. The rest was not found, and its lack left the Egyptologists on dignified tenterhooks. Last summer the missing inscription was found on a stone built into a later structure. The scholars now know that the inscription is just what Egyptian schoolboys would be likely to copy. It tells how their Pharaoh Kamose defeated the uncouth Hyksos...