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...Crain, unlike Hewlett, is well within the reach of the Friar front line, and will have to run a great race to give the Crimson a one-two finish...
...Crimson varsity edged Providence 24-32, but in the freshman meet, Friar yearlings took the first four places ahead of Jim Smith, the pride of Harvard Yard and one of McCurdy's front six this fall...
Statistics on the Friar's performance this fall do little to brighten the picture...
Last weekend Providence dropped a 31-34 squeaker to Army in a triangular meet with Central Connecticut, but Paul Harris and Bob-Powers, two who beat Smith last year, and junior Barry Brown finished in the third, fourth, and fifth positions. The next two Friar runners, sophomores Al Campbell and Mike Eaton, were back in the tenth and twelfth positions, but Eaton's time was less than a minute slower than Harris's third-place clocking...
Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to. Job, for example, went straight to the top, while others took their problems to lesser officials, settled, like Juliet, for a friar; like Aladdin, for a genie; like Oedipus, for an oracle; or like Dorothy, for an available wizard. It is only modern man-charged with an item he did not purchase, in arrears on accounts he has long since paid, his mail misdirected, his drains stopped up, toaster broken or license expired-who does...