The Brass Ring Author:Bill Mauldin Bill Maudlin has written an autobiographical account of ten years inthe life of a cheerful delinquent whose character was formed in such places as a Mexican mining town, an Arizona desert homestead, and a New Mexico mountain apple farm. He survived a broken home full of loving but combative relatives and came down out of the hills at the age of... more » thirteen in the fourth year of the Great Depression, bearing a drawing tablet which bore but one commandment: "Thou shalt win" In the course of his next wild decade he became a free lance sign-painter and was thrown into jail at fifteen while riding a freight train to an assignment as a sports artist for a high school paper.« less