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...freshman swim team was bombed by Deerfield Saturday, 76-19. The only Harvard bright spot was a fly sweep by Glenn Yngve and Dick Barrett...
Other frosh winners were Hanson in the 50-free. Nadeau in the Individual Medley, Dick Barrett in the fly and Hashioka in the 100-free...
Learning from Bondsmen. In 1960, Georgetown launched the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowships (named for an alumnus U.S. judge), which annually pay up to eleven graduate students an average $7,000, plus fees and tuition, to spend a year defending indigents. So far, the fellows have defended almost 2,500 clients, thus learning trial law while earning master's degrees and providing needed representation in the process...
Sarah's father was everybody's friend, never missed a party, played a lively jazz guitar, and drank. Her mother was dark, beautiful, and "seemed to live as if she had a splinter of ice in her heart." Novelist Barrett has a fine ear for the edged remarks that are designed ostensibly to pass over the head of a child but really aimed as by-blows in the battle for the child's fealty. From father (comforting his daughter after a nightmare): "Your mother doesn't have nightmares when she's asleep, only when...
...trouble in the house proves to be not single but multiple, and it is all wound up with the gothic flourish of an ambiguous murder. The prose in this first novel by Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, sometimes rises a little too high on its toes and ends up breathless. But the book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people...