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...trimmer for Reynolds during summer vacations. (Another Reynolds employee, though less interested in it as a career: Bowman's younger brother, Gordon Gray, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary, former president of the University of North Carolina and now national security adviser to President Eisenhower.) At Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Bo Gray persuaded fellow students to smoke Prince Albert after he discovered that cigarettes were forbidden. After graduating from Chapel Hill ('29) he went to work as a Reynolds salesman...
...world record: 63 ft. 4 in.), rips off the hundred in 9.4 sec. (world record: 9.3 sec.). What is more, Cannon can also block with power, is at his best under pressure: "Man, I don't like to get beat." Summed up L.S.U.'s Tackle Bo Strange: "When you need it, that animal is there. Cannon won't get 100 touchdowns against Podunk. But he'll get the big one against someone like Ole Miss...
After a dull first half, Centre quarterback Bo McMillin, his path cleared by Roberts' devastating blocking, exploded for 32 yards and a touchdown the first time the Praying Colonels had the ball in the third period...
...slavers over off-duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless, decent, sensitive about being short, and his virtue consists of the absence of vice...
...could be more surprised than Bo. except perhaps the reader, when a quiet English girl named Daphne Poole takes him to her Cambridge flat and locks the door. Bo and Daph make beautiful movie music together, scored for "storms of feeling, extraordinary furnace fires, bottomless spasms, tender places, changes, quiets." After Buzz crudely tries to seduce her. it is Daphne who alerts Bo to his hero's lies, bluster and twisted bravery-"the courage that wants to be alone, that really wants death for all.'' On The Body's final mission, Buzz keeps his neurotic rendezvous...