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Brandy at Sundown. A generation ago, it had seemed possible that the original pioneer settler, a Scot named Ferris, might have made an outpost of civilization in this ill-favored wilderness. He had cleared the bush, trained the natives in animal husbandry and domestic service, imported the piano, the chandelier...
It is the blacks-on-the-rise who provide the cruel counterpoint of white degeneration. The "boy" leaves for a job in the post office, a motorscooter, and a sharp suit of store clothes on credit; the kitchen "girl," brooding on mail-order creams to lighten the skin and straighten...
Desert of Failure. The terrain itself is the real villain of the novel. The "territory" is a dreadful place of waterless rivers where turtles encrust a rock like scabs, and the "so-oopwha wind" reddens the sky with sandstorms. The only hope for anyone in such a place is to...
Nobody seems to know exactly who thought up Section 20(e)-and nobody knows exactly why. "The whole idea in pole vaulting is to get over the bar and not knock it off," says Dan Ferris, former national secretary of the A.A.U. "If that's what the vaulter does...
Ferris tallied his second goal at 17:49 on a quick spin-and-shoot following a faceoff in Harvard ice. St. Lawrence drew two of the second period's eight penalties in the final 30 seconds, however, and the Crimson converted this two-man advantage to tie the game when...