Word: scrapbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Returning home from the service in 1919, he felt that "I had never quite believed in that world, that I had never, in fact, quite belonged to it. It now appeared to me too narrowly limited by its governing principles and prejudices." A Prelude is thus not only the scrapbook of a growing writer but also an American echo of Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That-the classic farewell to innocence and youth in the comfortable era before...
...easily the world's best pole vaulter a decade ago keeps neither a scrapbook nor a trophy room, cannot even remember where he stashed the gold medals he won in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. Yet at 41, jut-jawed Bob Richards is as familiar a figure as most active athletes. Nobody could be happier about that than General Mills, Inc., maker of Wheaties, the breakfast yummy that Richards, one of the country's most successful single-product salesmen, enthusiastically pushes on television...
This big, curious volume, part documentary, part art book, part personal scrapbook-500 pictures (130 in color), 100,000 words of text-is both a pictorial record of Duncan's work and an autobiography. It shows most strikingly that Duncan the word chronicler is not as interesting as Duncan the photographer, if only because he exposes, like Halliburton, much more of his emotions and his self-concern than the reader cares to know. Characteristically, he dedicates the book to both his ex-wife and his present wife, then goes on to present dozens of documents, letters and telegrams that...
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...