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...Neville returns after an undefeated season in the 50-yd. free. He will be joined by prep school All-American George Keim in the sprints...
...time, in the guise of his title character, 29-year-old Theophilus North. Like Wilder, the young North (who remembers his stories in extreme old age) is an escapee from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a master of many languages, an ex-prep schoolteacher and Yaleman. He is also an infernal meddler in other people's business, more or less in the spirit (much diminished) of Jesus, Socrates and George Brush, Wilder's insufferably virtuous hero in Heaven 's My Destination...
...Brown was a $25,000-a-year product manager with General Foods and Goodwin was a $14,000-a-year Justice Department antitrust lawyer; but neither of the two former prep school chums (Choate) was having much fun. They examined some 20 industries for prospects and chose juvenile equipment because of its lack of innovation. Then they persuaded an engineer friend, Jim Sloan, to design a product, and the Umbroller rolled out. Brown and Goodwin raised $120,000 from their bank accounts and relatives, quit their jobs and founded Cross River Products Inc., with headquarters in their living rooms...
...attack, the organizers said, will be directed at psychologists and sociologists who claim that blacks are genetically inferior to whites, and at the White House and liberals who, they say, are destroying free schools and experimental schools like New York's Harlem Prep...
Andover appeared headed for victory early in the final quarter. The prep school team pressured the Harvard goal until, with ten minutes left, its momentum subsided. Two minutes later, Harvard's Mike Lohrer centered a pass in front of the Andover net, and Rob Grant booted it in for the gamewinner...