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Born. To William Sylvester Girard, 23, ex-G.I. who was convicted last fall by a Japanese court (and put on suspended sentence) for shooting a Japanese woman scavenging brass from a U.S. Army firing range, and Haru Sueyama ("Candy") Girard, 30, who married him after the killing and before the trial: a daughter, their first child; in Ottawa, 111. Name: Roxanne Marie. Weight...
Russell Lee Swanson, an ex-G.I. with training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Merion, Pa.'s Barnes Foundation, started out as a science-fiction bug, was converted to the submarine world almost as soon as he donned his first face mask five years ago at Star Island, N.H. Says Swimmer Swanson: "Why bother going into space or to another planet when there is another world right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing...
...girl named Lila, who frets about being half-Jewish but whose physique is as firm as her psyche is wobbly. Lila is one of the zombi women who people modern fiction; she exists to do Tom's will. Tom himself plays zombi to Chris Hunt, a kind of ex-G.I. Dorian Gray who "tinkers with machines and people" and usually cracks up both...
...Ottawa, Ill., ex-G.I. William Girard, who found a night-shift job back home bagging fertilizer after an undesirable discharge from the Army and a three-year sentence (suspended) from a Japanese court for killing a woman with an empty cartridge case on a firing range, confided that his Japanese-born wife Candy is expecting a tax exemption in August. Said he: "I think Candy wants a boy, and I certainly...
This is a first novel about a small New York businessman that blends folk humor with wisecrack as if Sam Levenson had had his jokes edited by George S. Kaufman. Hero Bill Roth, 23, is an ex-G.I. working for his engineering degree who lives with his parents in The Bronx. He sleeps on a sofa couch in the living room "on the main trade route from the bedroom to the bathroom." When he stays out late with girls or comes home with liquor on his breath, he is treated to his mother's virtuoso sighs...