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Kirkland goalie Steve Groper agreed that the two teams "could go either...
...waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case of moral acne, and itches with integrity in a world he thinks the phonies have defiled. Pam, too, is alone and afraid, caroming between stuffy upper-East-Side guardians, a gorgon of an absentee mother and private nightmares of despair...
...less lyrical than it is sensual, Pam and The Groper's love-making has a vernal, childlike candor about it that soars above the sordid. Pam's pregnancy and a call from the draft board break the spell but weld the couple in marriage and newfound maturity. Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first...
...team seems least likely to run into trouble with its pitching staff. Bob Ward is gone, but Andy Ward inactive part of last season for disciplinary reasons--seems capable of filling the hole his namesake left. Two other possible starters who might make up for the loss of Pat Groper are John Arnold and Ken Rossano. All three are right-handers...
...prevalent hero in serious U.S. fiction is the groper, a man who does not know quite what he wants and usually makes himself miserable trying to get it. In each of his two novels, one of the newest recruits to the genre, Cleveland-born Herbert Gold, 29, has focused on a hard-at-work groper. His first novel, Birth of a Hero, featured a middle-aged father of three groping for a new personality in an extra-marital love affair. The Prospect Before Us tells the story of a pudgy Cleveland hotel operator who suddenly starts groping for personal integrity...