Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subjects of the 71 pieces in Inhale & Exhale range from the reminiscences of a (Saroyan) schoolboy to speculative statements on the (Saroyan) universe. But whether the scene is barbershop, vaudeville, honkytonk, back street or California valley, Saroyan's brooding eye sees more in it than would meet an ordinary fact-finding glance. He sits through a custard-pie cinecomedy "but God Al mighty it didn't seem funny to me and I sat in the darkness trying to laugh, but I kept thinking, 'Why are they wasting everything, why are they making all these mistakes...
POWER - Edwin A. Falk - Longmans, Green ($4). When Wallace Irwin wrote his popular Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in 1907 he called his hero Hashimura Togo-a name obliquely familiar to most U. S. newspaper readers. But when Count Togo Heihachiro, onetime Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern...
...Baby Benedetto grew older it became obvious that he had very little coffinmaker in him. He roamed the streets, took to dicing and card-sharping at a tender age. While still a schoolboy he became an adept with the girls. The bishop, who took a paternal interest in the lad, rescued him from such scrapes as seducing a nun in her cell, but when he got to grave-robbing Benedetto had to leave town. He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew. One faithless wench got his tongue wagging too freely...
...going to get sodden drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns...
Under the new lenient regulations, students will undoubtedly cut their classes before and after the Thanksgiving holiday. Let us hope this will not mean the return of stringent regulations on vacation cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week...