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Pentagon Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who filed thousands of words for the story written by Associate Editor Burton Pines, got a quite different impression of the mood of the Navy when he attended a high-ranking strategy forum at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Says Nelan: "The atmosphere was awash in gloom and doom. The admirals could not understand why America's seapower was, as they saw it, being cut back to the danger point. They were puzzled as much as angry, feeling misunderstood and ill-used...
...Bruce Springsteen will be at the Music Hall on May 29 and 30, but some of you will have already finished finals and left for home. Stay around--would you rather hear Springsteen crooning or your mother nagging you? Unless your name is Oedipus, go with the first choice...
...feel bad for Hendricks, though. The one to feel sorry for is the next batter, Bruce Shepherd, the intended victim of this strategy. Actually, you can understand why the Dudley hurler, who wishes to remain anonymous for reasons that will be readily apparent when I continue with this story, preferred to face Shepherd, a cocky Californian whose fielding average is lower than his batting average and whose credibility rises and falls with the price of stock in Del Webb...
Other concerts to look out for are: Bruce Springsteen at the Music Hall on May 29-31 (if it isn't already sold out); Bonnie Raitt at Bentley College on the 27 and Brown U. on the 29; Jefferson Starship at the Music Hall on May 19-20. I personally recommend all three of these great shows, although I've never seen any of them in concert except the Starship, and that was years ago in Central Park in the rain and mud with 100,000 other people. (Those crowd estimates are never quite accurate...
...Quaker hurler Bruce Ballard rode his club's huge lead to a complete game victory, as did Penn starter John Leonard, with an even stronger (eight strikeouts, one earned run) performance in the nightcap...