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Winthrop's John Hey took the 157-lb. match from Bob Schoenberg of Eliot to score the Puritan's only win. Dave Royce of Lowell pinned Kirkland's Marshall Berman in 1:45 of the second period to win the 123-lb. title...
...follow-the-hero level, the action of The Recognitions may seem simple. Wyatt Gwyon is the shy son of a New England preacher. His mother has died during a trip to Spain, and he is brought up under the gimlet eye and Puritan maxims of a crabby maiden aunt. In Paris, he holes up in a studio and paints, but he gets panned by the critics. Wyatt is soon back in a Greenwich Village flat with a draftsman's job and a possessive wife just out of analysis. He sheds his wife, and sells himself into esthetic and moral...
...Puritan team, led by high scorer Bill Riggs and center Dave Bodiker, won first place in the "A" league of the House competition with 12 wins and two defeats. Winthrop broke a tie with Kirkland to capture the league "A" title, but lost to the Deacons in over-all point score...
Miller's interest in Puritanism began largely by accident. As he says, he had been "too busy living to do much reading" on his journeys, but back at Chicago the scholarly Odysseus struck out of an experimental study of America history, literature, and philosophy. "I wanted to start at the beginning," he says, "and I didn't get any further for a long time." It is no wonder that he is just now getting to his chief interest-the nineteenth century-for he spent years reading every available Puritan sermon...
...narrating a program on WGBH; still the wanderer--he was at the Institute of Advance Study at Princeton last year, where he met and admired Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer; still the liberator and still the scholar, the tall, white-haired, intense professor, is more than anything else, a happy Puritan...