Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PEYTON PLACE (372 pp.)-Grace Metalious-Julian Messner...
...wonder. Every character in Peyton Place, from the gallused bench-sitters on Elm Street to the assured local mill owner, has a lurid history that John O'Hara's characters might envy. Novelist Metalious suggests that sex is never long out of the town's mind; anyway, it seldom is out of hers. Her hero (strangely enough a schoolteacher with a Greek name) courts the local widow with such niceties as "a stunning blow across the mouth with the back of his hand." And her love scenes are as explicit as love scenes can get without...
...adventurous young who storm for change. But in this novel about the political Trimbles of Trimble, Ohio, it is the son and not the father who is the conservative. A full-blooded international career of oil wildcatting, marital freewheeling and ambassadorial roving has left 52-year-old John Peyton Trimble irrepressibly convinced that "experimentation" is the first rule of behavior, "essential to the courage to be oneself." His politically gifted son rigidly practices a contrary rule: "Never bet against the house-don't be a sucker-be the house." As in his other books (The Nice American, The Center...
Dunster and Loverett had the largest number of starters, each with three. The Funsters started Jim Wade at forward, and Ron peyton and Jones as guards; the Bunies had Dan Mayers at center, and Lee Hurd and Paul Donovan in the guard slots wlion the game began...
Runner-up in the inter-House league, Dunster with an 11 and 3 record put five men on the all-star Wintergreen squad: pivot Burt Berson, left guard Ron Peyton; and forwards Jim Wade, Jim Jones, and Jim Downey...