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Show BOOK BUZZ "71 The kids thrived. Stories of making popcorn with Aunt Belle (who was just - .1 ,.V like one of the kids but "with more sense and more money), : shocking oats by moonlight V. when it wasnt so Messed hot; 1 0 cutting down socks with holes in the toes and them for younger kids, "pulling for itM " m, the house" when storm clouds boiled up, fill this narrative with nostalgia and a peace that the entertainment filled present doesnt provide. Kalish is a fine, straightforward prose stylist with a great eye for detail and the story of her childhood might make one reconsider what constitutes a happy life. Super Bowl win last year. His new book "Quiet Strength: The frinciples, Practices, and 'Quiet Strength' of a Winning Life" (with Nathan Whitaker), shows in Most sports fans will know what a good coach Tony becomingly humble detail, what a good man he is. Dungy is, after the Colts's V By LAURA WADLEY . . . 'Little Heathens' , , Part of my pleasure in ; reading Mildred Armstrong Kalishs "Little Heathen: Hard Times and High Spirits on an ; Iowa Farm During the Great .7 Depression" derives from the fact that I grew up on a farm and my mother regularly called us not just little tea- thens," but miserable little heathens," which no douht we "l - -- wA.s . ' Kahsh grew up mostly in her grandparents home, her father having been turned out for some never-name- d indiscretion when she was 5. Grandpa and Grandma Urrny were austere folk. . Believing that displays of af-fection were, if not unseemly, least bad manners, they. . . ' atb-leti- . (A H 5. a . : fri-oriti- raised the grandkids to be respectful, hardworking, un- complaining, thrifty, resource-a- t ful, and coddle-fre- . . e. '- Patrick OMey THE STATE (COLUMBIA. 14 -- . were.;.-:'- ks Dungy grew up in Michigan, t the son of educators. c Both his parents were in was (he junior high school before he could outrun his mother around their house), but emphasized education andcharacter above all other sue-- : ' cesses. The thread that runs through ' ' all of Dungys triumphs, disap-- , is pointments, and tragedies his faith in God, and his insis- tence that his players behave themselves on the field and off. ."Quiet Strength" is a book that richly desaves its place .! on the bestseller list; parents and young people who are looking for an exemplary sports role model need look no further than Tony Dungy. 1950 when she became the first black player to play in the U.S. Open. Seven years later, she became the first Mack player to win at Wimbledon. Gibson went on to live a life SC.) row up in poverty and the rules of society are I altered. Grow up in pov- -. erty and life is not about making the next meal or getting to school on time. Its about respect. There are many ways to earn respect, but all too often ' in the world of poverty re-- ' spect Is earned by puttings sandwich in the grill of anyone who dares disre-- I Laura Wadfey is a librarian with the Provo City Library . her at laurawGprova. Iib.ut.us...: ' - -t ' i unlike any other, She made goodwill tours of Asia to promote tennis. She became the first black woman to play on the womens professional golf tour. She cut an album. She appeared alongside John Wayne and William Holden in the 1959 Western, "The Horse Soldiers" It was a stunningly fruitful life that ended with a virtually spenyuu. That was the world South anonymous death in 2003, said. "I try to figure out what Carolina native Althea Gibson Today, pick any review of is essential Really, the turn- Stauffadier's new book and ... grew up in, after her fam- the theme is the same. ing point in Althea's life was ily moved to Depression-er- a Harlem. Tall and lean, she was when Buddy Walker saw her " "Say the name 'Althea Gib-son to me a month ago and every bit as good at any sport potential." as her male counterparts. 7 It was Walker, a musician, youd have met a blank stare," who bought Gibson her first writes one reviewer at the But she was nothing but book review biog, Fuse Num- true tennis racket. He knew trouble during those early days. Her mom and dad hung virtually nothing about tennis, ber 8." That is the main reason their heads and shrugged their but he knew people who did. Stauffacher chose to tell G3- shoulders, The cop down the ; Rilling strings wherever he street grew tired of dealing 'could. Walker put Gibson on .son's story. d .her trailblazing path. withher for pinching sweet All the while, as Gibson's and remarkably illustrated in ' potatoes. the unique watercMor style sheer athleticism was being Gibson was teetering on the edge of oblivion, dose to ' harnessed for the tennis court, of Greg Couch, Nothing but becoming just another faceless Walker taught her how to har- - Trouble should connect solidly with its target audience chil-ness her frenetic emotions, statistic living an empty life. He had to make all these dren ages 4-Thats where Buddy Walker ; The challenge of mastering entered the picture, and that's leaps of faith," Stauffacher said And what hopefulness where Michigan author Sue yourself is huge and ubiqui-.- .. Stauffacher begins her Young he had to introduce her to that tous. The rules of poverty in Readers book, Nothing but todays America are the same particular sport. When Buddy as they were in Altheas time," introduced her to tennis, she Trouble: The Story of Althea Stauffacher said. This is a never looked back." Gibson." From that first meeting "Ive never been interested story I wanted to teD, a story that needed to be written, a with Walker, Gibson looked in telling the story of a per- forward. She made history in son's whole life," Stauffacher story kids need to hear." . . . . - . - . . ;. . . Well-writte- n, 'i' fast-pace- 3 I 8. - . 8 . 7 : |