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Junior Varsity--stroke, Fritz Schwarz; seven, Carter Harrison; six, Geoffrey Locke; five, John Eager; four, Charles Faulkner; three, Steven Hopkins; two, Henry Hammond; bow, Nick Tilney; cox, John Finley...
...this is not intended to sound like an argument for inaction and an apology for the "complexities of the situation"--complex as the situation may be. When William Faulkner warned the North: "Wait, wait now, stop and consider first," we agreed; but only so long as consideration is not both first and last. For there is, at the moment, a crisis of sorts: the Southern extremists, at least in the Black Belt, seem to have pretty firm control, and they are not going to give it up without a fight...
...physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what you're talking about!" Indeed, one of the difficulties in tagging the U.S. intellectual is his own resistance to the tag. It is quite characteristic of America that Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner should declare, with a hint of pride: "I ain't no intellectual...
Earlier in the week Coach Harvey Love rearranged his line-up, moving Geoffrey Locke, who had been at six, to stroke in place of Fritz Schwartz, bringing Charley Faulkner up from the jayvees to four for Charley Atkinson, who shifted to six, and finally inserting Henry Hammond into two for Art Hodges...
...Said Faulkner last week when asked whether he meant this literally: "I am a fiction writer and I am not responsible for any construction made on any interview I have ever given...