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...FAIRLY GOOD TIME by Mavis Gallant. 308 pages. Random House...
...Nobody has Shirley's interests at heart; nobody will hear her cry: "I wanted to be loved more!" The girl skitters on the edge of madness, leaping from drab reality to poetic fancy to sheer incoherence, from self-analysis to baths of self-pity. In the process, Miss Gallant's book bounces from high comedy to low, from pure pathos to arch New Yorkerish chatter. But neither heroine nor style ever loses the sharp wit that provides both with rare bite and rarer balance...
...league in rebounds (18.1 a game) and averaging 16.9 points a game in 1958, when he was stricken by post-traumatic encephalopathy (paralysis caused by brain swelling). Aided by his teammates, who inaugurated the annual Maurice Stokes All-Star Game to raise funds for his therapy, he began a gallant struggle for recovery. Completely helpless at first, he eventually regained partial use of his hands and voice, but was confined to a wheelchair until his death...
...disappeared along with their ship, the 850-ton submarine Minerve. To the navy's surprise, the President suggested taking a brief dive himself in one of the doomed submarine's sister ships, the Eurydice. The general's ride, to a depth of 130 feet, was a gallant gesture of confidence in the submarines of the Daphné class, to which the Minerve and the Eurydice belonged...
...delay?and the county smoothly initiated its integration plan. Not a single parent arrived to protest when Perry Grammar School, for example, increased its black enrollment from 5% to 40% and added six black teachers. "I like to think of what we're doing today as in a gallant Southern tradition?doing what's best for our children," said one white mother...