Topical Guide 183
Mark Dorset
The Adventures of Larry Peters
I WAS BARELY ADOLESCENT when I first encountered Larry Peters, the eponymous hero of a series of books called, collectively, The Adventures of Larry Peters. My maternal grandmother, Gumma, gave me the first book in the series, The Shapely Brunette, as a present and a consolation, when I was sick, confined to bed, on my birthday.
Little Follies, “Call Me Larry”
I couldn’t find a copy of The Shapely Brunette. I tried, but no luck. Did the book exist? Or is Kraft (or Peter) using a nonexistent book to stand in for any (or all) of the books in the series? Here are covers of three of the actual ones.
Drama: Radio: “Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife” and “Mary Noble, Backstage Wife”
I would listen to the radio while I ate, listening at this time of the day to soap operas, my favorite of which was “Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife.”
Little Follies, “Call Me Larry”
Seven Deadly Sins
At Jack’s Twenty-Four Hour Jokes, on the southwest corner of Bolotomy and Main, one could buy, and most of us between the ages of nine and twelve did buy, model kits called Virtues ’n’ Vices, which contained red rubber molds and plaster of Paris, with which one could cast figures that represented the Cardinal Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins.
Little Follies, “Call Me Larry”
See also: Radio TG 64; Reason versus Passion; Lust; Desire; Acquisitiveness TG 65; Idleness, Daydreaming, Dolce far Niente TG 41
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