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...soil composition of the Texas hill country in the 19th century. Not for nothing: Caro is explaining why Johnson's farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Making of a President | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

Thompson has publicly let it be known-that he has aspired to the Oval Office since he was a toddler. Should win today, as seems certain, in a year that may well prove resoundingly Democratic while not swerving from right-wing goals, the Tribune predicts he "will automatically become a prospect for the GOP presidential nomination "Stevenson, should he pull off the political miracle of the year, would have nearly as bright a future. With the family name, the Midwest's most populous bully pulpit and a mind suited to concocting a new Democratic platform for 1984, he would...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Of Wimps and Toughs | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

Cleary has always been one of Kelley's favorite targets because Snooks worked with Cleary's father and remembers the Harvard coach as a toddler and then as Crimson hockey star and member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: A Visit With Snooks | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

When confronted with one of his father's drawings, Alex W Davis, 2, pointed and said, "Snoopy." Although he failed to identify the fat and sassy Garfield, the toddler was eerily on target in another respect. His dad, Jim Davis, 36, who created Garfield, always dreamed of becoming the next Charles Schulz. Davis wanted to pen a cartoon animal as captivating and popular as Schulz's canine flying ace and his pals in the Peanuts comic strip. That fantasy is fast approaching fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Catty Cartoonists | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...knee-deep in the age. She has left her mother's house in Brooklyn to study classics at Columbia. There she is seduced by a knavish political science professor of the Herbert Marcuse persuasion; she moves into the apartment he shares with two other women and a toddler named Mao; she is encouraged by her lover to sleep with a downstairs neighbor; she becomes pregnant by one or the other and heads for the abortionist's waiting room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Prodigal Daughter Returns THE COMPANY OF WOMEN by Mary Gordon | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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