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...Foil for the Lonely. Christopher Isherwood, who owns the most mellifluous name since Hiawatha, started All the Conspirators (New Directions; 255 pp.; $3) in 1926, when he was 21. It is a much better than fair first novel, although not a very robust one. It is really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none...
...fondness for melodrama of an author still partly adolescent shows in All the Conspirators. Eleven years later, still moodily youthful but by then a seasoned novelist, Isherwood invented a foil for his loneliness-and created his best character-in the abundantly friendly Sally Bowles of Goodbye to Berlin...
...sabre and foil contests held Tuesday night, Pete Kane of Dunster took first place in foil and Funster Bob Bowditch won in sabre. Art Lemay of Kirkland was runner-up to Kane and Dudley's Honston Baker came in second in sabre...
...graduating captain Bill Trebilcock, who had a 10-5 record in Ivy competition, foil was probably the varsity's strongest division this season. Lefthander Phil Charat, Larry Johnson, and Alan Gardner were all valuable assets. Next year's captain Dave Johnson got better as the year wore on, scoring the only Crimson foil victory in the Yale match. The return of this season's regulars, except Trebilcock, and the addition of freshmen Pete Schossberger and Mahlon Wheeler will make foil tough again next year...
Manuel Cabral and Mike Woolf each won three and lost seven sabre contests on Saturday, while Jon Piel won two and lost eight. On Friday the varsity compiled 13-17 and 12-18 records in epee and foil respectively...