Two Truths in My Pocket (1982)
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Lois Ruby's 1982 collection gathers stories about Jewish teenagers. In "Strangers in the Land of Egypt", the wisecracking Barry Wyman narrates what happens when Esther Morgen, who is Black and Jewish, joins his synagogue's youth group. (Open Library)
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- Bulova Accutron
- The Temple Youth Group spends ten minutes debating what time its meeting was officially adjourned. Barry, who ran for every office but chaplain and lost, has an Accutron Digital Chronometer on and so knows the answer, but nobody pays any attention to him; Esther leans over to ask what difference two minutes could make. The text names the watch in full; Bulova sold its Accutron quartz digitals in the 1970s.
Source text: I had an Accutron Digital Chronometer on (Lois Ruby, "Strangers in the Land of Egypt", in Two Truths in My Pocket, scan cataloged as Ballantine Books (Fawcett Juniper), 1983, p. 88; the OCR of this scan is poor and the rest of the sentence is garbled, so only the clean clause is quoted; the narrator gives his name on p. 85; Internet Archive scan OCR)