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...reserve. When the field carried wide on the stretch turn, he wove and darted toward the rail with the sure-footed skill of an All-American halfback. Silky shot under the wire a widening three lengths in front of his stablemate, Harcall. Said Harcall's jockey, Bill Boland: "He ran by me so fast, he darn near sucked me under...
...earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor to attend his pregnant wife is slowed to an alcoholic crawl by a succession of pubs and pals until the quest finally blurs into a blue forgetfulness; in A Bachelor's Story, crusty Archie Boland comes to the belated knowledge that his one narrow escape from matrimony was actually his last chance of happiness. Author O'Connor's stories are best read individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips...
...Robertson seems sure to give the Big Red big points in the broad jump and whatever dash he enters, as well as the low hurdles. In addition, Cornell has Art Boland and Earl McHugh, both outstanding dash...
Ingley rules the 600 field, with Yale's Bob Skerritt and Cornell's Art Boland also threats. Crimson coach Bill McCurdy will counter with captain Dick Wharton and French Anderson. Wharton looks like the best bet here, but Anderson, recently recovered from a leg injury, could surprise...
Harsh as it was by U.N. standards, the censure resolution failed to dissipate the sense of guilt which many delegates felt toward Hungary's heroic rebels. "We are reproached," said Ireland's Frederick Boland early in the debate, "by the saying of Pericles: 'Acts deserve acts, not words, in their honor.' We do not hope to move the Russians by our appeals and our condemnations; they may be moved, however, by their own increasing isolation...