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...Natural, is told by Brooklynite First-Novelist Bernard Malamud. In some parts it is just about the best baseball yarning since the late great Ring Lardner put the cover on his typewriter. One side of The Natural is broad farce, in which Novelist Malamud kids the legends of baseball prowess. The other side of Roy's story is pitched to the theme of American tragedy. He had come up to the leagues once before as a youngster, only to be shot by a madwoman in a Chicago hotel the night before he was to report. Now, 15 years later...
Sunday Track Meet. Bob's athletic prowess is not entirely an accident of birth. His father, a onetime University of Oklahoma all-state football player, is a general practitioner and Tulare's high-school team doctor. The whole Mathias household has always been dedicated to athletics. Brother Eugene, 24, was a promising high-school football star until his career was cut short by a concussion; Jimmy, 18, is an up & coming decathloner (he finished 19th in the nationals); Patricia, 15, the family hopes, will be an Olympic swimmer...
...called. His fellow pleasure-seeker John P. Marquand '15 glories in relating one of the main athletic diversions at 7 Linden, Called "the two beer dash," it consisted of rushing by subway into Boston, drinking two beers, and returning to Cambridge in the shortest possible time Conant's prowess in this field have not been recorded for posterity, but he has always been recorded for posterity, but he has always been known as a capable athlete...
...McArthur's fourth in riding was good enough to earn him the No. 1 Olympic pentathlon berth with 20 points. Despite his prowess, McArthur will still take orders from the three other qualifiers: Lieut. Fred Denman (24 points), Captain Troy (25) and Lieut. Johnson...
Thirty-six thousand dollars a year as a class's average earnings is an accurate indication of the Business School's teaching proficiency. This lucrative prowess was the Class of 1923's record, according to the current issue of Business Week magazine...