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...competition of the day. Duke then edged out the Crimson by breaking a 21-21 tie in the final match to take a 24-21 win. Harvard began the day against Columbia (8-8, 2-3) with the heavyweight bout, in which Ogunwole posted a major decision against Bill Beechum, 16-2, and gave the Crimson a 4-0 lead. After Harvard forfeited the 125-lbs. bout, eighth-ranked junior Robbie Preston (133 lbs.) recorded a 7-2 win, and No. 14 Meltzer pinned Sal Tirico in the third period of the 141 lbs. match. Freshman Louis Caputo clinched...
PLAYERS TO WATCH WR Brandon Bowser (Sr.), WR Pete Chromiak (Sr.), DE Chris Sullivan (Sr.), DE Bill Beechum (Sr.), SS Keenan Shaw (Sr.), FS Tad Crawford (Jr.), CB Prosper Nwokocha...
Candy-Man. The most memorable of the Southern stories are harsher. There is Candy-Man Beechum, the epitaph to a huge Negro mule skinner's quirky heroism. Loping happily along to visit his Saturday-night girl, Candy-Man is shot down by a deputy, just because the deputy feels like it. Candy-Man says that the deputy shouldn't have done that. The deputy says to shut up or he will pull out his gun again and hurry Candy-Man along. "If that's the way it's to be," the dying man says back...
...theatre on the point of babbling oneself. Mr. Caldwell's stylistic devices are, though effective, simple rather than subtle. As in all his earlier books, there are paragraphs in this latest collection which could be broken up into regular metrical lines. Reading aloud the first story, "Candy-Man Beechum," with its rhythms which invite a singsong intonation and its refrain-like repetitions and variations of phrase, one gains much the same impression as from a Vachel Lindsay chant. There is, besides, the method familiar since Hemingway of crowding together important and unimportant things without emphasis or subordination...
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