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...PEYTON PLACE (372 pp.)-Grace Metalious-Julian Messner...
...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...
Actually, Evelyn Peyton Gordon can go through most Washington receiving lines on the basis of background alone. A fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors...