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Three Divinity students fell through thin ice on Mystic Lake while skating yesterday afternoon. The trio, John C. Lamberth 1D, Raymond S. Pinch, and Charles R. Gregg 1D, were not hospitalized and suffered no ill effects from the ordeal...
...Gregg managed to pull himself from the water, and he and a fourth companion who did not slip through the ice, William J. Courtenay 2D, went to seek...
...trouble at New Jersey's Diamond County Home for the Aged begins on the day of the annual August fair. The oldsters awake to find little tin name plates tacked to their wicker porch chairs. Gregg, a 70-year-old rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose. The philosophic Hook, an old man's old man of 94, observes mildly of Gregg's feat that workmanship is not what it once was. The armchair rebellion merely saddens Conner, the poorhouse prefect. A self-punishing do-gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror...
Then there is serious little Gregg. She raids her ex-boy-friend's garbage can. broods lovingly over pieced-out evidence of his new romance. A different sort is sensible, prim-and-proper Caroline; she likes older men. Halfway through the book she sights one of them, a gin-rickety, fascinatingly debauched religion editor: "Caroline could not help remembering the feelings she had had about him at the other party . . . and as his eyes met hers she realized he was thinking about it too. For an instant the spark arose between them again, and her heart began to pound...
World War II Paratrooper Bill Gregg, owner of the wrecked frame house, could not have agreed more. Once his astonishment had worn off and Air Force lawyers had assured him that things would be put to rights, he remarked: "I always wanted a swimming pool, and now I've got the hole for one at no cost. I may open it to the public-charge them for swimming in uranium-enriched waters...