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Edward K. McCagg of Straus and Katonah, N.Y., has been elected captain of the freshman crew for 1954. McCagg, six foot five, and 180 pounds, rowed three years at Pomfret School in three and four position. He rows six in the Yardling first boat...
McIntosh, who was co-captain of the soccer team at the Pomfret School before coming to Cambridge, has been the starting left halfback on the varsity eleven for three years. As captain he replaces Robert H. Dean '54, who played right halfback...
...absence of a regular 150-pound coach, Waldo Johnston, former rowing coach at Pomfret, had offered his services to the Yale A.A. and was subsequently appointed to the post...
When Howard and Martha stopped at the small-town Pennsylvania hotel one snowy evening, it was only to make a phone call. They were both fortyish and married, though not to each other. But they were in love, the real thing at last. Howard Pomfret speaks to Martha just the way O'Hara has learned to write from Ernest Hemingway: "It was so long ago, Girl. I don't want to remember her, I want to be with you. You're my last love, my final love." A few drinks, car trouble, and the blizzard outside decide...
While the storm rages outside, all is good fellowship within. Then the truck driver, boorish and a little drunk, insults one of the vaudeville girls, quarrels with Pomfret and quits the party. Later, when Martha and Pomfret drive off in the snowstorm, the truck driver is waiting for them beside the road, deliberately smashes into them from the rear and kills them...