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DEVIL BY THE SEA (224 pp.)-Nina Bawden-Lippincott...
...Hilary's need for affection overcomes even her terror of the "Devil." When she meets him again in a field beyond the Downs, she smiles in welcome and he invites her to his trailer. The last part of Novelist Bawden's melodrama is dominated by the cliffhanging question of what will happen to Hilary in that trailer...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...
...Bawden opened the scoring for the Ephs in the second period when he got off a good penalty kick after a Crimson fullback had been called for blocking. McIntosh tied the score a few minutes later when he took a pass from his wing and deflected a shot off the Williams fullback for a score...
McIntosh set up another score early in the second half when he passed to Jim Shue and the inside right jammed it into the net. Dick Repp tied it up late in the quarter on a good head-in on a pass from left wing Dave Kimball. Bawden scored the winning goal midway in the fourth period on a penalty kick...