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...Robbie Fidler, 25, who writes the Manhattan (Kans.) Mercury's What About It? column, recalls a woman who ordered 1,000 African night crawlers from a Texas worm farm. Lost in the mail, came the complaint. "It's interesting to think that nobody would have noticed 1,000 night crawlers loose in the mail," she muses. Fidler traced them, and found they had not been sent. After several calls, the wife of the proprietor finally blurted tearfully that her husband had left on a business trip some weeks earlier and never returned. Fidler decided that problem was beyond...
...would be better than B.U. I mean, it's a nice rink and all that, but it's just not home. If George had wanted to play at B.U., he would have done it from the beginning, and he'd be centering an All-American line with Mark Fidler and Dave Silk right now. Instead, he'll play out his career before only the faithful few. It's enough to make...
...Hunt moves in with her elderly cousin, Dolly Chadbourne, following the death of her parents. But Lily resists the eligible lawyer who importunes her, and commits suicide rather than compromise her reputation. Several decades and revolutions later, the more liberated Amy runs off with one Herman Fidler, a rebellious stockbroker who aspires to become a painter. Eventually she marries Jamey Coates, a principled if naive Wall Street lawyer, and saves him through various intrigues from the clutches of an unscrupulous partner who threatens to ruin them both...
...suffocating restrictions of the bloodless upper class: "Amy was alive; Amy throbbed. For what was life but wanting to live?" Auchincloss's penchant for the portentous flourish has never been more in evidence; in the spirit of a self-help manual rather than a heroine, Amy proclaims to Fidler's wife: "I exist. I feel. You're the one who's concerned with doing. I just am, that...
...then fired up to put the game out of reach for the Western College Hockey Association champs. Leading scorer Fidler drilled a low slapper past Baretta on a power play at 6:15 of the third period, and Silk chipped one past the netminder from right on the goal line a mere 35 seconds later...