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...still being played, and mostly by modern-day royalty. Of the 3,000 or so aficionados who play the game today, most are straight out of the social register-with one notable exception. Last week the world open court-tennis championship, held in Manchester, England, pitted George ("Pete") Bostwick Jr., 34, Wall Street stockbroker, topflight amateur golfer and son of a polo player, against John Willis, 25, ex-boxer and son of a Manchester factory worker. Bostwick developed his game at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club; Willis picked up his skills as an apprentice professional while earning...
...first character onstage is a bird -The Cock, magnificently plumed and wattled by Costume Designer Nancy Potts, and played by Barry Bostwick with impudent elegance. The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise...
Harvard led 7-1 in the third period when St. Nick's Pete Bostwick added the second and final goal for the visitors. The Crimson then ran off another streak of six goals to end the game strongly...
Time was when Norris Bostwick, a 39-year-old New York restaurant cashier, liked to polish off ten hot dogs before dinner. He weighed 399 lbs. and was rejected by every girl he met, as well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was a major effort, exiting from a cab became a three-minute ordeal. Now life is considerably lighter and brighter for Bostwick: in ten months he has shed 170 lbs. How? By belonging to Weight Watchers Inc., an organization that is making such dramatic reductions commonplace...
Fitzsimmons recorded 23 saves, and Dave Ferguson, an All-Ivy netminder at Brown last year, made 24. In addition to Ferguson, the Nicks' muffled guns included Bob Gaudreau (Brown '66), Bill Lamarche (Harvard '64), Peter and John Cook (Princeton '60 and '63), and captain Pete Bostwick (Middlebury...