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...story of a sick man and his nurse. Now, to A Farewell to Arms and The English Patient, add another memorable star-crossed Red Cross romance: Thomas Moran's second novel, The World I Made for Her (Riverhead; 273 pages; $23.95), which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once) by a horrifically stubborn strain of chicken pox, the immobilized Blatchley has been rendered tongue-tied not by Cyrano-like shyness but by an emergency tracheotomy and an ominous respirator...
Given the story's medical ground rules, tragic, unrequited love is the only love Blatchley can reasonably hope for, and he makes the most of it, courting the plain but gentle Nuala solely from his neck up, in thoughts and dreams and the occasional rounding of his lips. Drifting among blackouts, hallucinations and long days of morphine-muted delirium, he stitches together a history for Nuala as an archetypal carefree country girl, all windblown red hair and stylized pink cheeks. But since Blatchley is also an intellectual (his police beat was forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with...
Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...
...Field '04, 3 1 G. B. Dabney 1L., 1 1-2 2 1-2 P. R. Ammidon '05, 4 0 M. Wertheim '06, 0 4 YALE. B. Webster '03, 1 3 J. T. Oxley '04, 0 4 J. J. Fisher L.S., 2 1-2 1 1-2 N. J. Blatchley '03, 1 3 J. B. Brinsmade '05, 2 2 B. J. Marens...
...orders of the two teams are as follows: HARVARD. YALE. M. J. Kling 2L. B. Webster '03. E. W. Merritt '04. W. J. Blatchley '03. E. Field '04. J. J. Fisher L.S. G. B. Dagney 1L. J. T. Oxley '04. P. R. Ammidon '05. J. B. Brinsmade '05. M. Wertheim '06. B. J. Marens L.S. or J. D. Ackley...
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