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...hoopla isn't all commerce; a lot of it is pride and affection. "He put Sauk Centre on the map," approved the 8:30 a.m. coffee crowd at the Palmer House Hotel. True enough. No one ever made a metaphor out of neighboring Long Prairie or Gutches Grove or Alexandria...
...plain. Despite the scattering of dairy farms and silos and little groves of trees, the landscape rolls open as the ocean right up to the edge of town. Winter lasts about eight months, and at 7:30 on Feb. 7, the birthday morning, the view from a frost-coated Palmer House window was of what a local writer, Chuck Rathe, calls glittering bitterness--a sub-zero refraction of sunrise on salt and ice and frost, sparkling through clouds of steam and smoke, the air itself turned to veils. The cold and the seeping, whistling presence they call "that wind...
...reiteration of once successful jokes and pleasantries is peculiarly Middle Western. The familiar rumble fills the lunchtime air at the Ding Dong, the Hi Ho, the Short Stop, the Tic Toc. "But we have no Dew Drop Inn," laments Lucille McClain, the hostess at the Palmer House. She is pouring another cup for Matt Norcia, who has probably heard 3 million times the rest of the 3:30 coffee crowd's joke about his family connections "in Palermo ho ho." It is a sociability with built-in defenses and proscribed limits. At another table some post-'60s people visiting from...
CORNELL (64)--Len Palmer 4-0--8; Drew Martin 5-2--12; Ken bantum 12-4--28; Derek Williams 0-0--0; John Bajusz 6-0--12; Wolfgang Florin, 0-0--0; San Givens, 0-0--0; Mike Millane 0-0--0; Dean Kartonas 2-0-4. Totals...
Fouled Out--Ferry. Total fouls--Harvard 14, Cornell 21, Rebounds--Harvard 23 (Ferry 8), Cornell 21 (Palmer, Bantum 6), Assists--Harvard 14 (Duncan 6), Cornell 11 (Williams...