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...running events. Harvard's sprinters, a strength so far this spring, will face a tough field, and hopes of any domination by Baylee Reid. Bud Wilson, and Austin O'Connor seem slim. The quarter mile appears to be completely up to Nick Leone, who is starting to run up to his ability after being sidelined much of the year. Bob Clayton is confronted with a similar task in the half, but both Clayton and Leone must run in time heats, which has upset McCurdy...
...Nick Leone continued his comeback in the quarter, winning in 50.7. In the sprints, where Harvard has been strong all season, the trio of Baylee Reid, captain Bud Wilson, and Austin O'Conner had a particularly successful afternoon, sweeping both...
...sprints, a Harvard strength so far this season, will be crucial for the Crimson. Baylee Reid, captain Bud Wilson, and Austin O'Conner must score in order to offest Dartmouth's advantage in the distance races. The quarter, with Nick Leone, and the half, with Clayton, are a "toss-up", and with Rick Rojas suffering from a vital infection, the distances will be in the hands of Mike Koerner, Fred Linsk, and Bob Seals...
Chinking the empty spaces in Nick's life with torn-off bits of prose, arranged chronologically so as to provide more information about him, is not an improvement. The resonance is dulled. We are given, for example, three pages about young Nick's nighttime fears, which Hemingway cut from the beginning of Indian Camp. There is a mawkish 63-page shard of an unfinishable novel, telling how the teen-aged Nick and his kid sister hide in the woods to escape a couple of improbably Snopesian game wardens. (In his Hemingway biography Carlos Baker very properly deals with...
...have one justification. It is a fine excuse to read the old stories again. They are what they were. Indian Camp is good, but the suicide that ends it is phony. The Killers, though much anthologized, is merely muscle flexing. The tiny, less than 200-word story in which Nick lies wounded against the wall of the Italian church is superb. So is A Way You'll Never...