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Winthrop was in tough straights all afternoon. Bob Cameron, high speed specialist of the Puritan offense, got away on a 35 yard run and the only touchdown of the game on a fake reverse. From then on the Gold Coasters took over virtual control of the ball and late in the fourth quarter pushed it deep into Winthrop territory...
After the early loss of lift-half Dave Roos with a broken log, Winthrop House would not be stopped. The Puritan offense looked like a rototiller raging through soft, Indiana soil, with the Winthrop backs bucking the center and sweeping the ends past blocked and seated Commuter defenders...
Dave Aloian dove over the chalk for the first Winthrop score. The second Puritan tally was made from their own 30 yard line, with Harvey Thayer escorted by his blockers through the Dudley defense for 70 yards to enter the end zone. Bob Cameron ran over the last two puritan touchdowns...
Hawthorne's imagination was, to put it simply, both the gift and the burden of his life. He was "deep," and brainy enough to see and explore with detachment the dangers, for one of his heritage, in the life of imagination. For generations that heritage had been profoundly Puritan. After his sea-captain father died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters...
...twelve years later. He won the bet. For a modern biographer it is almost superfluous to note the sexual distrust, as well as the calculation, in this resolve. What is more important is the lucid analysis, through fiction, that Hawthorne gave to such matters (and indeed to his whole Puritan background) in the years that followed...