One is Ryan Giggs, still playing for the club he joined as a schoolboy, 21 years ago.
He is a central character in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), Smiley's People (1980), and The Secret Pilgrim (1991).
Their struggle was continued in The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and culminated in Smiley's People (1979; miniseries 1982) with a successful attempt by Smiley to force Karla's defection to the West.
Without added protection, Mr. Graves said, the drill is roughly the same as it was when he was a schoolboy 40 years ago: "They move you into the hallway, and you stay there tucked up and wait it out".
This book inaugurates the "Karla trilogy", named after Smiley's wily Soviet counterpart, so you will want to follow it up with The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and Smiley's People (1979).
Camden High School of New Jersey became the first United States schoolboy 4x200 meter relay to run under 1 minute 27 seconds when the foursome of Dwayne Lewis (21.9 seconds), Sherron Bullock (21.3), Alonzo Brown (21.9) and Carl Smith 21.8 won the event last night in 1 26.90 in the Eastern States high school championships at the Armory Track and Field Center in Manhattan.
But the undoubted highlight was Worcestershire-born Cox - who hit his first half century on his debut as a 17-year-old schoolboy five years ago - blasting a six and 13 fours as he reached three figures for the first time.
Despite being a 16-year-old schoolboy a decade ago, Mr Cator already knew enough about the dark arts of promoting websites, and making money from the internet, to realise that HMA could be a commercial success.
His instructional book Cricket for Schoolboys (1965) was a thoughtful little volume in which, with an authority given to very few, he was critical of the Australian captain Richie Benaud for stationing his slip fielders wide apart.
Farah won the three-mile junior event three years in a row as a schoolboy between 1998 and 2000.
He had begun writing poetry at an early age, publishing a few occasional pieces when a schoolboy in 1641 and 1642.
