Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whoever Got Rich?" What the banks bit on was as airy a bit of corporate superstructure as any schoolboy could dream up during a dull study period. The son of a middling prosperous shoe merchant, Belle declined an offer to go in his father's business ("Whoever got rich fitting shoes?"). Instead, he started out legitimately enough as a co-founder of the Eastern Investment and Development Corp., formed to specialize in industrial uplift of moribund towns; he helped revive tiny (pop. 1,800) Saltsburg, Pa. with a campaign that attracted three new industries with a payroll of about...
...invented Jeeves and had 13 successive butlers when he lived in Europe, now lives in quiet, butlerless Remsenburg, on Long Island, about two hours from Manhattan. "Plummie" (a schoolboy nickname) now makes do with a part-time gardener who tends his twelve beautifully kept acres, and a four-day-a-week maid who helps wife "Bunny" run a charming ten-room white-shingled house. At 76, Wodehouse still does his "getting-up" exercises at 7:30, walks three to five miles a day, keeps the two birdbaths filled...
...some point of adolescence, every schoolboy falls distantly in love with an actress. Few do as complete a job as Anthony, the downbeat narrator of this new novel, who carries the torch for his actress over a stretch of 18 years and then, lamentably, achieves gratification...
...student at Cairo's Al Nahda secondary school, Nasser organized schoolboy riots, about this time ordered an assassination (presumably of an Egyptian political leader) that narrowly failed to come off, and lay awake shuddering on his own salvation. That year the British refused to grant home rule to India; Gandhi went on a hunger strike, and Nehru to jail...
...farmer today if the Wahoo high school had not had a teacher, Miss Bess McDonald, with the gift of infectious enthusiasm. She taught physics and chemistry, and young George fell in love with both her and her sciences. He spent long evenings at her house, wrapped in his schoolboy crush, and listened to her attempts to convert him to an unusual religious sect whose name he does not remember. He never hit the sawdust trail, but when Miss McDonald's religious appeals failed, she started persuading him to go to college. His father expected him to take over...