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...Yell Leader. As a towheaded toddler, Goodie never had to be urged to climb up on a chair and sing or recite for guests. When he reached Manual Arts High School, Goodie swam in his natural element. There was plenty of competition (among his class of 1915: General Jimmy Doolittle, Frank Capra, Lawrence Tibbett, former Lieutenant Governor Buron Fitts), but Goodie rose like a bubble in a glass of beer to the head of the class. He was yell leader, composer of school songs, star of the debating team, an enthusiastic member of the glee club and the dramatic society...
...nothing to do, so I work." About Danny Boy. The Thomas legend will be enhanced by the three chapters from Adventures in the Skin Trade, and the 20 stories published with them. Many a poet, when he writes prose, sounds as stodgy as a beached carp, but Thomas easily swam through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous as a prose writer if he had never so much as rhymed hell and seashell. Some of the stories sing of the same Welsh town he saluted in Under Milk Wood...
...morning swam...
...bloodless coup restored him to power, sent Pridi into exile. Durable Premier Phibun has survived several attempted counterrevolutions. (In 1951 he was politely captured by the navy in the midst of a ceremony. He was taken aboard a warship, but escaped when a bomb hit the ship. Phibun swam safely back to shore and power.) In recent years Phibun, the World War II collaborationist, has proved to be one of the best friends of the West, Southeast Asia's most militant anti-Communist (Pridi, on the other hand, has turned on his wartime friends, now mouths the Communist line...
...that Christy Brown, now 22, reports in his autobiography, My Left Foot (Simon & Schuster; $3). From that moment, though unschooled, Christy went on to painting and writing stories, always with his left foot. Relying on that same limb, he had himself thrown into a canal by his brothers, and swam the first time...