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SHORT STORIES OF RUSSIA TODAY (250 pp.)-Edited by Yvonne Kapp-Houghton Mifflin...
This lament in Varvara Karbouvskaya's Bondage indicates how tired Soviet writers must be of the girl-meets-boy, girl-loves-tractor school of fiction. The 18 stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly...
...Iowa (7-1-1)-parlayed the passing of Quarterback Randy Duncan, the running of fleet Halfback Willie Fleming into its second Big Ten title in three years, a shot at California and Joe Kapp in the Rose Bowl...
Quarterback: Joe Kapp, 20, California; 6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs. Senior. Major: physical education. Football's best running quarterback; a slick ball handler, he put California in the Rose Bowl almost singlehanded; called his plays with rare perception, executed them with extraordinary finesse and poise...
...always in the T formation world of football, the congestion of good players is heavy at quarterback. Three of the year's best are California's Joe Kapp, a vicious blocker and tackier who has completed 52 of 87 passes, run for a surprising (for a quarterback) 540 yds.; Iowa's pass-happy Randy Duncan (91 completions in 151 tries); and Notre Dame Newcomer George Izo, who was promoted to the first string only at midseason, has since completed 47 out of 77 passes for seven touchdowns. But 1958 may be best remembered as the year that...