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...mound for the Crimson will be tall righthander Paul Ronka, second man on the team's pitching staff. This season, in addition to Ronka, Samborski will rely lefty Tom Boone. Boone, the best hurler on the squad, compiled a 10 to 2 record in Missoula, Mont., American Legion ball last year and gained credit for a win in a pre-season practice game. Behind these two are pitchers Roy Williams, Al Yarbro, Bill Hyland and Jon Silverman...
DEER LODGE, Mont., April 16--Rioting Montana convicts armed with knives and guns, shot and killed a deputy warden today and grabbed 19 hostages including Warden Floyd E. Powell...
...said to him. A creased, dirty raincoat is his unvarying costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents. Says a woman, exasperated to find herself in love with him: "What do you think you are, a saint?" That is precisely the point about Antoine Montés: he is a scarecrow and a chronic victim, but he is also a kind of saint-a holy fool...
...morality tale told by French Novelist Simon is harsh and gloomy. The story of Montés' futile wanderings is told through the recollections of derisive and uncomprehending French villagers, resifted by the man who collected the gossip, and who was the gaunt man's only close acquaintance. Antoine Montés came to the savagely provincial winegrowing town to claim an inheritance, the narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid...
More Than Matter. In the course of the story, Montés touches three people-a broad-hipped mare of a peasant woman, with whom he sits for one evening and talks; and her two little girls, who follow him about for the gumdrops he hands out. But fate, Novelist Simon seems to be saying with irony, cooperates enthusiastically in making martyrs of saints; the woman is murdered, and the two children are taken away. "Man," writes the author, "is doubtless something more than matter; perhaps not much more, but all the same a little something more, just enough...