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...feel the atmosphere of frenzied Fenway, a national anthem which was sung by the kids in section 33 as if it was tailor made for drunks; the pre-game crowd chatter, the constant murmur of indistinguishable jock-talk, like a quick search for a station on the car radio...
...reform administration was up against its first great test, and it was widely acknowledged that if the "new UMW" could succeed in re-organizing a mine in Harlan County--for 15 years the stronghold of murderer and corrupt UMW president W.A. (Tony) Boyle--it could succeed anywhere. Reformer Jock Yablonski had feared to campaign there in 1969. The Boyle henchmen who slayed Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds had done the bidding of District 19 officials...
...captain Diana Finch cited Northeastern's aggressiveness as contributing to the loss. "But we're looking forward to a win on Saturday," she said. "Williams is not a jock school. They're more in our league...
...Tarzans and three of 19 ex-Janes got together to celebrate the centenary of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth. The lung-busting bellow was uttered by beefy Johnny Weissmuller, now 71 and 250 lbs., who starred in twelve Tarzan movies opposite four Janes; he and Tarzan No. 13, Jock Mahoney, 56, got together to heft a shapely Rent-A-Jane in a rippling display of one-apemanship. How far did Tarzan and Jane-uh-actually go in that jungle? "A lot of people used to ask me that," said Jane No. 13, Joyce McKenzie, now a high school journalism...
...steeplechase rider; since 1964 he has been booting home thrillers about horse racing. In KNOCKDOWN (Harper & Row; 217 pages; $6.95), his 15th, Francis penetrates the roseate façade of Ascot and Newmarket to examine the seamy, ruthless world of horseflesh peddlers. His laconic hero, Jonah Dereham, an ex-jock turned agent, refuses to play along with a ring of crooked horse traders. A loner, like most of Francis' characters, Dereham learns the hard way that "all's fair in love, war and bloodstock": he is savagely beaten, pitchforked within an inch of his life...