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...victim of this affliction is Willie Morris of Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1967, a mere 32, he became the youngest editor in chief ever of Harper's magazine. Full of himself and brimming with pep, Morris tried to aerate the old monthly, which was losing about $150,000 a year, by hiring a cadre of hard-drinking cronies that included John Corry, Marshall Frady and Larry L. King. When Morris wasn't schmoozing with the likes of John J. McCloy and Walter Lippmann at the veddy veddy Century Club, you might have found him boozing with other celebs...
Diehard optimism, however, comes with the territory. "Hope's native home," Wallace Stegner, the Hemingway of the Rockies, called the West, "the youngest and the freshest of America's regions, magnificently endowed and with a chance to become something unprecedented." And he wrote, "Nothing would gratify me more than to see it . . . both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery." If the Rockies find that state of grace, the cry around America will continue to be "Head for the hills...
...David Stuart, 28, who began his career as a child. The son of Maya archaeologists George and Gene Stuart, he made his first trip to Maya ruins at the age of three, and by 1984, at 18, was so skilled at deciphering glyphs that he became the youngest recipient ever of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Stuart's next project is nothing less than cataloging every known Maya inscription, a task he guesses could take him the rest of his life. "There is at least another century of work; it will go on long after I'm gone," he says...
...youngest of six and a high school dropout, Johnson drifted into gangs for support and identity. Asked why he was shot, he says, "It's a long story," which means someone was out for revenge. Recalling the streets, he tries to cling to some of his former toughness. "I guess I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says. "It could happen to anyone." But that's not enough. "Sometimes it's so hard," he whispers. "I get high temperatures and real sweaty, and I get these pains." He breathes on his own through a hole...
...questions now arise: Was John Singleton's first film, Boyz N the Hood, a lucky accident? Or is his second, Poetic Justice, an unlucky one? Too soon to say, of course, since Singleton, the youngest person (and only black) to receive simultaneous Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, is still in his 20s, with most of his career ahead...