Word: metered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lion with B.O. Breslin parades a gaggle of neo-Runyonesque caricatures, proving mainly that Damon's were pithiest. There is, for instance, 425-pound Big Jelly Catalano, who likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid, Tony the Indian, Joe the Wop, Beppo the Dwarf and a lion with body odor. Yet the book is funny, particularly on the sadistic Tom-and-Jerry cartoon level of violence, because the characters aren't real and nothing is really at stake but a few laughs...
...meter diving competition also failed to bring the crowd to its feet. Dave Silver and Dick Eisenberg had little trouble gathering eight points, especially since Brown has no divers, and these points proved to be enough to win the meet...
...events, the 1000-free and the three, meter dive, will not be swum because Brown is in the New England League. rather than the Eastern League, and the New England meets don't have those two events. It is particularly appropriate that there is no three-meter dive since the pool is only eight feet deep...
Henry Watson, who is rated fifth in the world in the 400-meter freestyle, was elected captain...
Silver, who won both dives against Army, had to settle for a pair of seconds Saturday. In the three-meter competition, he was beaten by classmate Tom Wallace...