SF Weekly: When Life Refuses to Let You Quit: The Emerging Journey of Elvin Childers
When Life Refuses to Let You Quit: The Emerging Journey of Elvin Childers
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Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived critical advantage from its strategic location between Harvard and Yale.
It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings we have and the world we inhabit. As a weekly magazine LIFE covered it all, with a breadth and open-mindedness that looks especially astounding today, when publications and websites tailor their ...
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Doctors once told Elvin Childers’ parents that he might not survive the night. Later, another physician said he likely would not live to see 21. Today, at 91, Childers speaks calmly about those ...