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...Devil in the Flesh, 17-year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book...
Later that year, an SS man named Gustav Sirsch and his wife entered the story. Childless, they went to the SS orphanage, asked to adopt a boy. They were offered a dark-haired, blue-eyed youngster of two whom they liked at once. The people at the orphanage said he was the son of German parents. It was, in fact, Ivan...
...cover on his typewriter. One side of The Natural is broad farce, in which Novelist Malamud kids the legends of baseball prowess. The other side of Roy's story is pitched to the theme of American tragedy. He had come up to the leagues once before as a youngster, only to be shot by a madwoman in a Chicago hotel the night before he was to report. Now, 15 years later, he knows his second-chance success must come soon...
...freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon, who had also come out from the Middle West. She married him two years later. Their second son, Dick, worked in the lemon grove as a youngster, chopping weeds and caring for the trees. The grove itself turned out to be a lemon. The family moved to Whittier and set up Nixon's Market, a general store and filling station, which is still going strong today. (Nixon's parents, still hale & hearty, have left the store...
Childhood & Education: A king at three, Feisal had a brief fling at toys and tanks, lollipops, Flash Gordon movie serials and Superman comics before growing into a solemn-faced, rather lonely youngster, stuffed full of English, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, French and dynastic history. At 14, donned his father's old school tie and went off to Harrow (Winston Churchill's school). Got along with teachers & classmates, showed no signs of the anti-British feelings his father developed there after three Harrowing years...