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...nation's flowers emerged from caves and broken buildings. Beside the budding, shrapnel-scarred elms along the streets, they watched. Now & then a youngster clapped or smiled, but mostly they stood with wooden faces, like tired old people who have found life very hard and who take little joy in parades...
...goes through a series of outlandish, although credible, experiences. Each one makes him believe that the other youngster died of a broken heart as a result of the trickery, and that the police are after him. Further complications arise when Johnny's father, a psychiatrist, decides that his son is suffering from a mother complex...
...bomb casings used by the Allies. In 1945, when Ted Smith came out of the Air Force as a 2nd lieutenant, Heath began grooming him for the presidency. Heath will still be around, as chairman of the policymaking executive committee, to keep an eye on the youngster...
...late. But since he and his wife have long ago stopped talking about their childlessness, the doctor doesn't recognize his own symptoms. When he steps in and begins to supervise the life of little Alan MacNeil, he tells himself it is simply his duty to a youngster whose own father has abandoned him. At first, Alan's mother is pleased by the doctor's solicitude; then she senses that, though good Dr. Ainslie doesn't know it, he is really trying to take her son away from her. Moreover, though her husband is only...
...Cylinder Complex. The handsome, blond freshman who went to Princeton from St. Paul in the fall of 1913 had been a thoroughly spoiled youngster ("I didn't know till 15 that there was auyone in the world except me . . .")*When he started school at the age of seven, it was on condition that he go only half days, whichever half he chose. Later, when he made the football team at Newman School, the quarterback threatened in the middle of a game to beat up Fitzgerald because he didn't have the guts to make a tackle. Already...