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...Cemetery Hill, where Harvard had broken Penn three years ago with a mile and a half to go, Thornton, Merrick and Childs began pulling away. Fikes and O'Conner followed, and with less than half a mile remaining, Piazza overtook Rojas as well. Thornton, Fikes, Merrick and Childs finished together in 25:22.8, with O'Conner and Piazza less than 10 seconds behind...
Pennsylvania, equipped with six superb runners, all nearly equal in talent, employed the same bird-dogging tactics that worked beautifully for the Quakers last year, when they whipped Harvard 20-41. The four victors, plus teammates Frank O'Conner and Piazza, ran as a unit throughout the race, surrounding Harvard sophomore Rick Rojas and captain Mike Koerner, and matching them step for step during the first two miles of the 5.5 mile course...
Recalls Penelope Gilliatt (hard g as in grin): "He sensed something perilous in the air even then." The hair and skin are the same hue that used to transport Titian, and she has never married a Hungarian of any kind. But as for the "something perilous"-well, Conner's trepidations were founded...
Perhaps it was inevitable. Mum and Dad separated when she was ten; the child was given her choice of parent to live with. At that age, girls are bonkers about their fathers; she and Conner enjoyed what she recalls as "a parody of marriage." Together they went to concerts, studied languages, played cello and piano duets. At 15, Penelope passed Oxford's matriculation exams, but was too young to be admitted. She tried a year at Bennington. There the peculiar Americans informed her that she possessed an Einsteinian...
Irresistible Signal. In her 20s Penelope Conner became known for something more than her critical acuity. There was that flaming hair, for one thing, and that look of perpetual astonishment. And there were the men. She was married for seven years to a brilliant neurologist, Roger Gilliatt-the best man at the wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. The Gilliatts split when she ran off with Playwright John Osborne (Look Back in Anger). After five years of volatile marriage, she and Osborne called it finis. She got custody of their only child, Nolan Kate. For a brief time...