Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Hirsh, late-thirtyish mock hero of Running, is that stock figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from...
Pigs in a Brassière Factory. Dave's father is a salty old reprobate who once ran off with the family doctor's wife and returned only to booze away his social security money at the local bars. Older brother Frank, acting head of the family, is a canny millionaire-in-the-making and a guilt-ridden lecher who loses successive mistresses to his wife's beagle-eyed sleuthing. Dave cannot stand the pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young...
Cornell has three undefeated wrestlers, sophomore Dave Auble at 123, Captain Dick Vincent at 157, and Steve Friedman at 167. Auble and Vincent both won their divisions at Wilkes, while Vincent and Friedman were both runners-up in last spring's Eastern Intercollegiates...
...other Wilkes winners, Carmen Molino at 130, and heavyweight Dave Dunlop, have absorbed only one loss...
Auble will meet Dave Skeels, while Molino will wrestle Bob Kozol. The varsity's John Watkins, one of the most impressive of the sophomores, will face George Willis at 137. Willis' only loss has been to Lehigh's Joe Gratton, the defending champion...