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...remembered" that the heavens had resounded slightly and that a star had twinkled on June 1, 1801, when Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt. Similar signals of divine pleasure are unrecorded for subsequent years when the indigent Young family drifted about western New York farms. The boy Brigham chopped, plowed, dug, sowed, lucky if in pants, seldom shod...
CRUEL FELLOWSHIP-Cyril Hume- Doran ($2.50). Claude Fisher was a lonely, weak, little boy. Caught in a mutual investigation party with a tough little girl, he was told he was nasty, believed it. He had pimples and no friends-only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends...
...probably-trying to make a little money on the side by soiling her dainty fingers with ink, writing in a language she did not know to satisfy the curiosity of distant crowds. They were hard-boiled journalists who never soiled their stubby fingers with ink because the office boy changed their typewriter ribbons when necessary...
...seldom acknowledge human kin. But, in the famed 500-mile sweepstakes at Indianapolis last week, Ralph de Palma, veteran driver, had a nephew-a dark diminutive youth with a countenance like a mask bitten out of sandstone by the wind. Uncle de Palma was a trifle worried. The boy was reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo. The whippersnapper was assuredly reckless, for the first 50 miles he led the roaring, crackling, reeking, spitting pack at a canter...
...reveal some 20 to 40% of near-graduates who are "undecided." Author Toland, instructor at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) and a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, rightly makes the point that, in an age of specializing, the hour for decision has struck before a boy leaves secondary school. In a few brief, provocative chapters that have more value than most college vocational guidance bureaus, he brings to youth's attention the nature and requirements of a score of careers, including college itself, as assayed by experts and attested by the experienced...