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...freshman title, edging Hollis by a scant two points, eight to six. All Lionel's scoring came in the 165-lb. match, as Gerry O'Connor defeated teammate Stan Freedman. Two Hollis boxers, Vin Aok and Ray Gallo, reached the finals, but each lost the decision. John Bower beat Aock in the 135-lb. class and John Todd decisioned Gallo in the 155-lb. match...
...three meet agan in Sicily, where King Richard pauses for a while; and Robert, John and Guy pass a languishing time in the bower of the Lady Melisande des Préaux, of Richard's court: "We trod on velvet there, on turf that some miracle of watering had kept soft and green as a nunnery lawn, past tall late lillies and dark cypress trees, down tiled paths between beds of yellow and red roses, at last to a colonnade of white fluted columns, the earth between set thick with violet leaves...
Rules are adjusted to Peach House conditions with the consent of John L. Bower, Teaching Fellow in Philosophy and his wife who share the house and act as house-parents...
...lost bower, The grave's drouth...
During summer months, these green dicta issue from an ivory bower, a rustic, century-old house near Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...