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Where next? Well, say he took an M.A. at the University of Chicago and decided to go on for the Ph.D. He met and married Margaret Martinson, the mother of two children by a previous marriage. When his first attempts at short stories were routinely rejected, Roth gave up his literary aspirations and buckled down to his academic career. He earned his doctorate and went on to teaching positions at the University of Iowa and Princeton. The Roths live in suburban Philadelphia, where he is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His critical books include The Jewish...
Despite severely injuring his right thumb during last year's Princeton game, Martinson, Marwede says "just kept on playing and snapping with his right hand...
...Martinson switched playing hands before the Harvard game to take to the field one last time before a series of operations. His thumb joint is still virtually immobile...
...tomorrow's impending in the Stadium, Martinson says "We are just going to play the best game we can. Win or lose, I won't leave any regrets. Everybody prepares differently. I like to stay loose and listen to music before a game...
...there life after football Martinson thinks...