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Penn started the second half with a hard-fought scoring burst, and within two minutes had shut out the Crimson and led it up, 39-39. The Quaker's Dave Robinson, who proved to be Penn's sparkplug for the game, led the early drive with his inside shooting and rugged rebounding. He was aided by the steady outside scoring from forward Ray Carazo...
Born in 1811, the twins were joined at the lower end of the breastbone, mainly by cartilage and ligaments which stretched and became so pliable that by the time the boys reached their teens they could stand side by side. When they were 32, the twins married Quaker sisters from Trap Hill Township, N.C.; Chang fathered ten children and Eng twelve. But despite their close tie and obvious similarities, the twins' temperaments and illnesses differed. Eng was abstemious; Chang was a tippler. In 1872, during one of his drinking bouts, Chang had a stroke that left him partly paralyzed...
Novelist Bell writes this way, and it must have seemed to him that the technique was ideally suited to his scheme, which was to portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their...
Family legends are well told; Daniel's aunt, almost blind, terrorizes the home-folks by veering around town in her Studebaker, and lectures severely all cops who stop her; one of Lucy's Quaker forebears was renowned for advising a burglar, "Friend, I am going to shoot right where thee is standing." The author's charged, highly colored prose is almost always impressive, but occasionally it slops over into italics and suggests Robert Penn Warren at less than his best...
...York's Howe Sound Co., France's Pechiney, the biggest aluminum producer in Europe, offered to buy up to 1,300,000 shares of Howe Sound common at $15 a share ($4 above the previous closing price). Pechiney is principally interested in Howe Sound's Quaker State Metals division, which can roll out 120 million Ibs. of aluminum sheet and strip a year, but is also eager to get control of Howe's copper and brass rolling mills, its precision casting facilities and its dental and surgical products division...