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Seldom this side of Plutarch have a great man's earliest moments been recorded in such pluperfect detail. But then, as Rebekah Baines Johnson went on to explain, her first son came from no common clay. Her matriarchal scrapbook saga of Lyndon's life, from birth (weight: 10 Ibs.) in "the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons" on the Pedernales until 1931, when he went to Washington as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, was presented to her son four years before her death in 1958. Last week, New York's McGraw-Hill published Rebekah...
...takes skill to cover floods. Also courage. Mel Ruder risked life and health and shared news with competing media to keep the public informed [May 14]. When I nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize, there was no elaborate scrapbook. His Hungry Horse News spoke for itself...
What made them make such a decision? Show this man the scrapbook, Mother. Let him see what kind of a kid it is that Harvard turned down." Alan took a calmer, broader view. "We know that the colleges have fads," he said. "One year they emphasize academic achievement. The next year it may be leadership. The next year it may be social adjustment. I had a choice. I knew my grades would suffer if I did these other things. But I don't regret it. I think they were worthwhile things...
...article makes up for what it lacks in accuracy with colorful quotations from rejected applicants and their parents. "Show this man the scrapbook. Mother," the Denver student's father exclaimed to a Time reporter. "Let him see what kind of a kid it is that Harvard turned down...
...only historians will be equal to the task of excavation. The memoirs have been assembled like a scrapbook, by a man who could not bear to leave anything out. They sorely lack the editor's pencil-and an editor's restraint...