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...Wells suddenly stopped playing the loser: "I have been dying long enough. I mean to live." With these words-and one of the most facile pens in the history of English literature-he began the climb from congenital failure, up and out of "generations of dark, deprived life...
What finally redeems Wells for the contemporary reader is the shadow of doubt beneath the bravado-the unspoken but ever-present question of young Wells, the born loser: "What if I'm wrong?" When he was only 25, Wells wrote: "Science is a match that man has just got alight . . . It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands lit and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty...
Somehow the Boston Press has failed to give Jack Van Berg the credit that he is due. It seems that everyone loves a loser and hates a winner. Clearly Jack will run away with the training honors at Rockinghgam Park--both in terms of races won and of percentage of winning starts...
Like most of Peter Fonda's fantasies, it should have faded with the morning. For Fonda is a loser by every Hollywood definition. He is not only known as Henry's son but as Jane's brother. At 20, he was admittedly "paranoic"; at 24, he escaped the Army when his draft board found him too unstable for military service. His vanilla screen-acting style was best expressed in such films as Tammy and the Doctor. Offscreen, Fonda began a new vocation-as an alcoholic who ended at least one motorcycle ride in a Hollywood hospital. When...
When Laver wins a match, and he won four at Longwood, he leaves the court quietly and without emotion. Winning, it seems, has become almost routine to him. And at the loser's locker, the feeling is almost routine as well...