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...Value of Time. Wormwood, a youngster full of a youngster's appetites, is beside himself with joy as the war intensifies. His uncle, snarling at "your readiness to forget the main point in your immediate enjoyment of human suffering," warns him: "I sometimes wonder if you young fiends ... are not in some danger of becoming infected by the sentiments and values of the humans among whom you work. They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them...
...chance of growing up. Crack-voiced Henry Aldrich has been about 16 years old now for the last four years. His protracted adolescence earns his creator (Playwright Clifford Goldsmith) radio's fattest writing fee ($3,000 for one show a week). Goldsmith is hardly likely to let the youngster get any older before his contract expires...
...aunt, former schoolteachers, started his education long before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch Hollow, he was soon known as an intellectual. Oldtimers remember him as a plump youngster (from a heavy appetite for beefsteak and cake), with a large, serious head thrust inquiringly forward, a stiff-legged, determined walk, a penchant for burying his nose in a book. In baseball games he was always the scorekeeper...
Edward Sinclair was 61 years old; his son Norman was a youngster of 35. Aaron Stone and Richard Vivian had passed 55. Tough, gnarled Newfies all, they knew...
...such youngster is beknighted Nobel Peace Prizewinner Sir Norman Angell. At 68 Sir Norman has written 32 books, sat in the British Parliament, worked five years in the U.S. as a ranch hand. The British Empire's most noted apologist in America, Sir Norman's latest views on the post-war world have caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to select Let the People Know as its February choice along with Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary...