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Faust has always relied on cultural trivia to create atmosphere. In his five-short-story collection, Roar Lion Roar (1965), the artifacts of popular culture actually possessed Faust's characters like real demons. In Foreign Devils, however, the Boxers, Benny Goodman, the basketball fixes of 1951, etc. have sunk to the level of mere nostalgia. One of America's chief natural resources, no doubt, but grossly overexploited at the moment. *R.Z. Sheppard
...Thompson came to Radcliffe this Spring, looking like a jaded and somewhat exotic ex-athlete--humble, but with the manner of a restless mountain lion. He walked into the stiffly gracious common room at 6:30 in the evening, plunked a six-pack on the coffee table, mumbled "well, this is breakfast," and proceeded to give one of the most lucid and intelligent analyses of last fall's presidential campaign that we have ever heard...
Harvard set the mood of the afternoon in the first inning of the opener, coming up with three runs off Frank Gordon, the only Lion player who even resembled a starting pitcher. Kevin Hampe tripled, Leigh Hogan singled him home then stole second, Jimmy Stoeckel tripled to drive Hogan across the plate, and an out later Hal Smith singled in the third...
...Brayton's shutout was spoiled with two outs and two strikes in the seventh and final inning when erstwhile Lion quarterback Don Jackson belted a home run over the left field fence. Brayton allowed only four hits in the game while striking out eight...
...Lion starter Ray Nawrocki, who played left field in the opener, fell apart in the sixth, allowing the first six Crimson batters to reach the base. Ten more batters and three pitchers (I use the term loosely) later, Harvard had come up with 11 runs on a scant five hits. Ten different players scored...