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...turns out, Haruf wasn't done with the little town of Holt and its striving, melancholy folk. His new novel, Eventide (Knopf; 300 pages), picks up their stories about 18 months later and follows them through an eventful autumn, winter and spring. The old bachelor McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond, are now contending with the departure of Victoria Roubideaux, the pregnant teenager who came to live with them in Plainsong and has moved with her toddler daughter to another town to start college. There's a new focus on the slow-witted Luther and Betty Wallace, whose grasp of fundamental...
...some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This time we're in Colorado cattle country, with Ike and Bobby Guthrie, ages nine and 10; their father Tom; two bachelor farmers, Harold and Raymond McPheron; and Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to go. Once the McPherons agree to care for Victoria, Haruf has roped in his plot as if it were the most cooperative of heifers. The cliches are plentiful, but this is a lovely read, illuminated by sparks of spare beauty...
...vicarious, on-the-spot experience comes over the air from tape-recorded documentaries made under fire by combat correspondents of the U.S. armed forces. Most of them have been made by young (39) Lieut. Colonel Wes McPheron. With McPheron, armchair listeners have crouched in a forward observation post watching a tank-artillery duel and stood helpless in an aid station listening to the moans of a soldier crippled by a mortar burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team...
...feather weight sparring between H. S. MacPherson L. S., and J. R. Whipple '94, afforded great interest and proved very entertaining. There were three rounds of as many minutes each, and then McPheron was given the event. Although 10 pounds lighter than his opponent McPherson was much more at his ease, and by his clever dodging and telling hits won many an advantange. Whipple fought a plucky battle and showed good staying qualities. The sparring began slowly but gradually grew faster and the last round was hard fought and one in which the heavier man often appeared to advantage...
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