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Last Year's Train. Everyone is kind. Hearty Dr. Gerald Gilley and his wife Pauline, who looks "like a lily on a long stalk," welcome Levin to Cascadia State College-the only one of 52 U.S. colleges that responded favorably to his application for a teaching job. An ex-drunkard and a repeated failure. Levin is humbly grateful. At 30, he sees himself as a "man still running after last year's train, far behind in the world...
...girls of Cascadia respond more warmly to Levin's bearded charm. Teacher Avis Fliss entices him with "her well-stacked bosom and behind like a hard head of cabbage." So does a shapely coed. But love comes thunderously during a chance encounter in an enchanted wood with Pauline Gilley, the susceptible wife of his benefactor...
Stan Golblatt will catch for the freshmen, with Chuck Leamy at first base, Hale Sturges at second, Jim Crampton at shortstop, and Dave Kipp at third. Harvey Mazer, Bruce Gilley, and Dave Hurwitt will be in the outfield...
Ruby Bates, the other girl in the gondola car, was not there to corroborate Victoria Price's story. In a New York City hospital, she had already reversed her testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told...
...them are written with such simplicity and charm of language that they are sure to make a very strong appeal to the reader. Here are found also the three books which President Eliot himself thought might have a more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think of Dr. Eliot as a man concerned only with intellectual and material values. They display from many angles his profound concern with human character and his conviction that it is in spiritual...