Word: daves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retreat Home. Bourjaily describes the assassination's effect chiefly on two men. One actually knew Kennedy. Dave Doremus not only sailed against Jack as a boy, but he also shared a ward with him in a naval hospital. The other, Barney James, is Doremus' lifelong friend. The story begins when Bourjaily's characters hear of the assassination. Barney and his wife are about to sail on a cruise with Dave and Dave's new wife when the "news from the southwest" reaches them. An instinctual fear that "something is moving around out there in the night...
...head of a New England wood-products factory, he has a fierce and principled pride in the quality of what he makes and in the dignity of the men who work for him. His resources as a human being are as varied as the generation he and his friend Dave represent. In fact, there are times when he seems a little too good, too rounded to be true: he is an athlete, a flyer, loves music, systematically rereads Shakespeare, and does his own household carpentry...
Barney James is, in sum, a man well worth knowing, and he establishes an instant, easy rapport with his audience. Through Barney's memories-the flashbacks are as elegantly managed as anything since James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed-the reader comes to know Dave Doremus, the man who knew Kennedy...
...England pride of place and family are handled with the sureness of J. P. Marquand. The rhythm of the seas moves through the novel's pages, from an idyllic postwar voyage down the New England coast to the final, brilliant set piece, a Caribbean cruise over which Dave's doom gathers like a rifle slowly being sighted down a sunny avenue. A misty morning approach to Columbus' landfall on San Salvador provides the symbol of all that was thought possible, the poignancy of all that was believed lost, by the generation that knew Kennedy...
...weekend series, Pickett will continue to juggle the lineup. His tentative plans are for Dave Stern at 145 tonight, with a healthy Howie Chatterton back at 160 and Chris Wickens at 167. For Columbia on Saturday, Andy Kopecki will start at 123, kicking up Howie Henjyoji, Danny Naylor, and Carl Baum to 130, 137, and 145 respectively. Jeff Grant will start at 160 with Chatterton up to 167. Ed Franquemont (152), Paul Padlak (177), Howie Freedman (191), and Bob Panoff (hvy.) will keep the same slots both days...