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...chilly and dark out on the freshman track as the runners finished up their workout. Coach Bill McCurdy put his hands in his pockets and walked here and there to keep warm while Ed Martin went through some prancing exercises and Jed Fitzgerald ran fast laps to loosen up his shoulders. Cross-country is over and winter track has begun...
...Fitzgerald adequately filled the perennially awkward spot of a freshman star establishing himself on a varsity squad. Hampered by colds, Fitzgerald had good days and bad days throughout the season. There is no question, however, that he will be one of McCurdy's key men next year...
With Benjamin, Schlaeppi, Thompson, and Brown graduating this spring, McCurdy naturally turns an expectant eye toward the freshmen. Mark Mullin will fill Jed Fitzgerald's sophomore shoes, figuratively speaking, and Bob Knapp and Dick Slansky should provide some much needed depth to the varsity next year...
Thus, even if Martin gets healthy, Fitzgerald gets consistent, Mullin meets expectations, and depth holds out, it will be rough going for cross-country next year. The season will be tough, but McCurdy has a reputation for making his squads even tougher...
Cuticle Push. For two years she was a nimble-witted reporter about Manhattan, and then came Hollywood. As for the romance with Fitzgerald, there was more tutelage than toot left in the ailing writer, and he liked to put together lists of required reading, e.g., Byron, Rabelais, the pre-Socratics. Said she: "You're pushing back the cuticle that's grown over my mind." But gin was still mother's milk to Fitzgerald whenever things went wrong, even though he recognized that "the escape was worse than the reality." These scenes of self-lacerating drunkenness...