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...outdone, the Crimson freshmen shut out the Bruin freshman 9-0. They were led by Dean Peckham, Mike Tarre, and "Chum" Steele, who didn't lose a set in beating their opponents in the first: second, and third singles matches...
...Karp, lf 2 0 0 * Shea, lf 0 0 0 Harshbarger, c 4 0 0 Del Rossi, p 4 1 1 -- -- -- Totals 33 6 7 * Sacrificed for Karp in sixth Tufts (1) ab r h Gillespie, 2b 4 0 0 French, cf 4 0 0 Peckham, c 4 0 2 Benin, 1b 4 0 1 Hess, 3b 3 1 2 Pfannenstiehl, rf 4 0 0 Appleton, lf 3 0 2 Guidi, ss 3 0 0 Loeb, p 2 0 0 Tarlow, p 0 0 0 * * Pelzer 1 0 0 Babel, p 0 0 0 -- -- -- Totals 32 1 7 * * Grounded...
...PRIME OF Miss JEAN BRODIE, by Muriel Spark (187 pp.; Llppincott; $3.95). Knowledgeable readers of Muriel Spark's novels admire such crystalline structures of malice as Memento Mori and The Ballad oj Peckham Rye partly for the economy with which they are built. Avoiding bravura writing as she would a vulgar display of pound notes, this Scotswoman sits composedly among her characters, goading them by silence and an infrequent equivocal smile to disclose their sins. Rarely does the exposure require more than 200 pages, and at the end of a Muriel Spark novel, most readers find themselves wondering...
...Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. Peckham Rye is a London suburb where the people are too average to sin grandly but not too average to sin. The result is often hilarious...
...Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. A brief encounter between a London Mephistopheles and the local mediocrities produces a hilarious novel, and some reflections about how even the common place can be touched with mystery...