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...least since the days of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the literature of adolescence has been full of sensitive schoolboys hounded by packs of their coarser fellows. Novelists like to even the old scores retroactively by painting the tormentors as unmitigated monsters. In Scotland's Burning, a first novel with autobiographical overtones, Nathaniel Burt offers a refreshingly different version. He writes an indictment without bitterness, a confession with candor. Scotland's Burning is the first-person story of a year in the prep-school life of Anthony Comstock,* 14, told by the hero 25 years later...
...Manhattan's Bowery; of a heart attack; after he was found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at Hunter College. In 1929, after winning critics' acclaim with a two-volume biography of Shelley, Professor Peck saw his academic career blow up in a tabloid scandal. Suing for separation, his wife accused him of leading an "unbelievably immoral life," named a Hunter student among five corespondents. Ousted from the faculty, the once elegant "Love Prof" drifted down to the Bowery, thereafter regaled fellow down...
...boned, twelve and tenderhearted, Crescent Delahanty lives on a Southern California ranch, but spends her finest hours with King Arthur and Shelley. "The day dies, its burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...
...civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening the way to effective Negro voting throughout the South; Morgan v. Virginia, striking down state-imposed segregation in interstate transportation; Sweatt v. Painter, compelling the University of Texas to admit a Negro to its law school; Shelley v. Kraemer, holding unenforceable, under the 14th Amendment, a racial housing covenant. Marshall's Supreme Court record: won 13, lost...
ARMY MEDICAL SERGEANT DAVID B. BLEAK, 21, of Shelley, Idaho: Entered a trench, killed two enemy soldiers with his bare hands and a third with his trench knife, shielded another U.N. soldier from a grenade blast, and evacuated a wounded companion. "As he moved down the hill with his heavy burden, he was attacked by two enemy soldiers with fixed bayonets ... he grabbed them and smashed their heads together...