Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There the likeness ends. Tommy G is 38; Tommy L. J. is 31. Tommy G. is a bachelor; Tommy L. J. is married and the father of a 9-year-old son. Tommy G. disdains competitive athletics; Tommy L. J. once a 200-lb. guard on Fordham's football team, still loves golf, baseball, handball...
Lenin, an economist, politician, agitator; Trotsky, an editor, strategist, orator; Radek, a journalist; Chicherin, son of an aristocratic family; Kamanev, a student of law; Rykov, Lenin's secretary; Zinoviev, a master of intrigue, a practical politician, "Lenin's greatest mistake"; Stalin, then 38, an editor; Bukharin, a dry, colorless theoretician; Lunacharsky, a dramatist; Dzerzhinsky, a politician-no group seemed so ill-equipped for the tasks before it as Russia's new leaders. All intellectuals, most of them hardened by years of exile and prison, they were masters of history who misread history, who banked on an international...
...brilliant past means anything, Jim Lightbody will be a fitting successor to Haydock. Son of an Olympic runner, Lightbody broke his back in high school and seemed shut out of track for life. As a Freshman he had already overcome this handicap when he made the Oxford-Cambridge meet; for two years now he has been unbeatable over the 440 and 880 distances...
...son of a famous Olympic runner, Light body has rolled up an amazing record in three years of Harvard track. As a Freshman he won six individual races and anchored a winning indoor Yardling relay team. In the Yale meet that year he was beaten out by Torby Macdonald in the 220 for his only defeat...
Corn-fed young Lochinvar of Midwest American writing in 1890 was Hamlin Garland. With sturdy grass-root realism his A Son of the Middle Border (1917) echoed the dissatisfaction of Populist farmers with Eastern banks and business, again surprised seaboard intellectuals into noting that there were literate settlements beyond Manhattan. But Populism was already dead and Garland was left like last year's scarecrow among the corn shocks. With the passing of the middle border he sought a substitute in the borderland of the spirits and its terrestrial outpost in Southern California. From there he still issues books...