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Over 250 graduate editors will return to Cambridge this weekend to help The Harvard Crimson celebrate its 100th anniversary at two day centennial festivities...
...STATION on 100th street is a Clark station. Clark only sells premium gas. But then Dave Rysky always went first class. It is located in a working class Catholic area where Polish fathers like Dave's wake up at six for the day shift in the steel mills, only to swing 3-11 next week and nights the week after; still swinging after twenty-five years on the job. Dave doesn't see his father much. It's a mostly Polish and Eastern European neighborhood of second and third generation, with a few Irish and Italians and a Mexican contingent...
...night the sky turns red when the mills fire up and the whole South-East side of Chicago glows red for a few minutes. If the atomic Armageddon ever comes, South-East siders will think that it is just another big fire-up. The yellow street sign dimly reads 100th street through the caked slag dust pollution and snow falls gently tinged with red from the mills. It is winter vacation, and I am going to see an old friend...
...garage in the back of the $21,000 one-story home and she wanted the money and if it rained and Dave didn't bring home enough she beat him until his lips cracked. And now I was going to see him at the Clark station on 100th street and I went to Harvard and he pumped gas and it was all so absurd because he was caddy of the year twice and I was just a not-so-close runner-up. We called him melonhead then or just plain 'melon' because his older brother who was in the state...
...early hours at the gold course before the golfers went our while Dave read comic books and Playboy. I took SAT's and got decent grades and played some football and did all the right things and got into Harvard and went. And Dave pumps gas on 100th street and when I asked the gas station owner where Dave was he said that Dave quit the gas station; that we works for U.S. Steel now like he knew in his gut he would when he was eight years old. And he'll get drafted and go to Nam and maybe...