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...Barker (29), the first Maugham Award winner, is no experimental stylist. And even "elderly" Evelyn Waugh (44) might have had a hard time getting the prize away from a book of short stories as original and good as her Innocents...
...stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed for power and his contempt for weak grownups...
Like Richard Hughes's famed A High Wind in Jamaica, Miss Barker's Innocents takes the mental world of children with unsentimental seriousness. Storyteller Barker works surely from within the child's range of comprehension, accurately describes the forging of a child's protective armor...
...could do nothing against the deadly shooting of the Elis, paced by Carroll with 36 points. But on the Leverett squash courts the tables were turned as Bill Bear. Paul Miller, Arthur Trottenberg, and Hud Sweeney swept through their matches unscored-upon. Dave Register won-by default, and Pete Barker pounded out a 3-2 victory...
...mastery to help knot Saturday's photofinish tilt, and Bill Prior and John Rockwell looked better than ever. They'll need to be. After tonight it will be all work, all Ivy League. Probably Starting Lineups HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Hauptfuhrer lf Hazon Rockwell rf Burke Prior c Kubachka Brady lg Barker Gannon rg Sullivan