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Down by 13 points with only three events left, B.U. got clutch performances from Craig Mallery, Tom Pollard, and Scott Sawyer to grab second place in the Greater Boston Swimming Championship yesterday at Blodgett Pool...
...relay team to a slight lead with a strong showing in the backstroke. Breaststroker Jack Ewing maintained the advantage and best his nemesis, Sawyer, by less than a tenth of a second. Tim Maximoff lengthened the Crimson's lead during his butterfly leg, and freestyler Andy Lockman held off Pollard to reach the touchpad first...
When their last morsel of food was gone and finding all must die, and for the sake that their friends should know their fate, Charles Ramsdell made the first proposition to cast lots. Captain Pollard would not listen to it, saying to the others "No, but if I die first you are welcome to subsist on my remains," and [Pollard's nephew Owen] Coffin joined in the entreaty to cast lots. They then cut some blank paper checks, [and] put them in a hat. The lot fell upon Coffin, which he distinctly declared to be a fair...
...Captain Pollard was not nor could he be thought to have dealt unfairly with this trying matter. On his arrival he bore the awful message to his mother as her son desired, but she became almost frantic with the thought, and I have learned that she never could become reconciled to the Captain's presence...
...adventures work well--the Dummar victory on a game show gives a wonderful picture of the event's manic nonsense as well as the Dummars' genuine exultation. Some do not--Melvin and his wife's service as professional witnesses in a Las Vegas marriage factory falls flat. Michael J. Pollard, the diminutive actor who played the sidekick in Bonnie and Clyde, returns to the screen after a long absence and turns in a terrific performance as one of Melvin's co-workers in a magnesium-packing plant...