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...Clark led the Crimson scoring with three goals, followed by Dave Birch with two and John Wylde, Laurie Pratt, Ed Harding, and acting captain Tom Crowley with one apiece...
Coach Jim Hutchinson will use the same line-up that trounced Arlington High last week, 11 to 1, with the addition of Dave Beadie who is down from the varsity. The starters will be Tom Crowley, John Wylde, Dave Birch, Laurie Pratt, Whip Filoon, and Charley Steedman...
...first line features a senior center Tom Crowley with junior left wing John Wylde and sophomore right wing Dave Birch. The defense will be all sophomores. Coach Jim Hutchinson has worked combinations of Bill Saltonstall and Laurie Pratt and Whip Filoon and Dick Leeson...
Bertie was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. His first tutor, Eton's Henry Birch, was ordered to report in detail on the little boy's failings. When, instead, Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...
...front on the left-hand side of the aisle. After the service he exchanges greetings with the minister and with some of the islanders in neighborly, not seignioral fashion. Back home in The Eyrie, he gathers the available members of his family around a crackling fire of pine and birch logs. Now he banters, perhaps, with his granddaughter Sandra (one of John D. Ill's daughters) about her life at Vassar and his life long ago at Old Brown. J.D.R. Jr. might even relate boyhood maxims: "He Who Conquers Self Is the Greatest Victor," or "The Secret of Sensible...