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First Down. One of the mighty had already fallen: Miler Gil Dodds, Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...answered courteously; and when euphoria enchants any saloon for more than five consecutive minutes, you can expect a quick return of trouble, or boredom, or both. The face on Saroyan's barroom floor has something unassailably good about the eyes. But the smile is that of a swindling parson who is sure his own swindle is for the greater glory...
...aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
Until she was 19, Helen Maud never went to school; her father, a parson and schoolmaster, tutored her at home. She learned enough to win a scholarship at the University of London, has been leading a serenely academic life ever since...
...Parson Patrick decided to bring the secret suffering into the open. One Sunday last month, when the time came to start his sermon, he told the worshipers: "Today you'll have a treat. I'll read you a sermon sent to me in the form of a letter. Some of your names are mentioned in it, but ... it's all for the best...