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...Golden Knights put up a fight for a period and a half, holding Harvard to a slim 2-0 margin after the first, then coming back for a goal at 0:44 of the second as Bill Blackwood's shot got past a screened Brian Petrovek. Petro was sharp throughout the game, however, staving off 15 shots (10 in the first period) and allowing two goals before being rested midway through the third...
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...wrenching contrasts. Quiet seminars mulled over the issues of the war while pickets shouted their dissent. Some mass marches developed a football rally spirit; elsewhere a funereal atmosphere dominated as church bells tolled and the names of the war dead were read. A pair of high school sweethearts from Blackwood, N.J., attended an M-day rally at Glassboro State College, then committed suicide together. Across the Hudson, New York's city hall wore the black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with the American Legion post to drape the town...
...Anne Brontë and ne'er-do-well brother Branwell. A decade ago, she moved to the Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result is not the vivid portrait that Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote right after Charlotte's death, it is more complete and accurate-an exhaustive...
...Blackwood is an excellent pianist. In addition to superb technique, he has an uncanny instinct for voicing. This sort of music is so often made to sound like an inchoate mass of notes; Blackwood, aided by his composer's understanding of musical structure, made it come alive...