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...pound class, Jerry Smith of Adams House decisioned Jack Johnson of Kirkland. Leverett's Mat Peppard defeated Puritan Jim Cummiskey, and Dick Conway of Adams beat Bill Klein of Leverett by TKO's in the 145 pound group...
...Tiger in the Garden" follows the Richardson children, Caroline, Percy, and Byron, from their genteel childhood before World War I, through Caroline's scandalous elopement with Joe Conway, a man of no social standing with whom all women want to sleep: through Percy's drunkenness, debauchery, homosexuality, and early death. Conway, at first scorned by his in-laws, makes a fortune when oil is discovered in the old cotton fields, and periodically escapes the sterile Richardsons by running off to New Orleans with a lady of fashion and culture...
Eventually, Caroline avenges herself on Conway, crushing his spirit with forgiveness, and, aided by the crash of '29, manages to ruin both their lives while doggedly attempting to prepare her nephew for the grand noble role she and her brothers were never quite able to fill...
Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...