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...thimblerigging. There are eerily improbable confrontations: the lonely writer who discovers the blonde girl of his dreams on a Norwegian waterfront and stares deep into her dreaming eyes only to discover that she is blind and that the eyes are shiny glass. The cheerful salesman who meets an escaped lion on the deserted pathway of a zoo and is at first terrified and then forever mortified that the lion turns disdainfully away, rejecting him as a meal...
...Lion in Love, by Shelagh Delaney. When a dispossessed class finds its voice, its proudest possession is its tongue. Everyone must be told-and told off-about how it feels to be an economic, or a racial, or a social, outcast. In A Taste of Honey, Britain's Shelagh Delaney, then a semiliterate 18-year-old, gave tongue richly and scathingly to her bitterly impoverished girlhood in industrial Lancashire. Out of her background, she dramatically distilled a kind of urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter...
...closest race of the afternoon, Coach Fred Cabot's varsity 150's bucked a stiff headwind and a rapid tide to pull out a six-tenths of a second victory. Behind at the start, the Crimson quickly took the lead and held it over the higher stroking Lion eight for the rest of the race...
...pattern of taking a quick lead with a higher-stroked and longer start in the other four races, and each time the Crimson pulled ahead to stay although stroking at a slower pace. The JV lightweights had a one-second margin of victory, while the third boat clobbered its Lion opponents by five lengths...
Last year the University received a total of $12.9 million in aid from the Public Health Service, with the lion's share ($8 million) going to the Med School. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the University Health Services, and the Schools of Public Health, Dental Medicine, and Education also received funds...