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Through the miracle of literary hindsight, the mess of two decades is foreseen by a sawed-off Christly caricature, Owen Meany, a New Hampshire granite quarrier's son who speaks in capital letters and believes the sacrificial arc of his life has been plotted by God. The novel's narrator is John Wheelwright, Meany's prep-school mate and eventually his leading apostle...
...Martin Quarrier is a fundamentalist missionary who enters the jungle to save the Niaruna. He is a kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...
More than 500 actors tried to get into the group. Vaughan picked 15, including his wife, Helen Quarrier; none are of star rank but all are experienced. "Most of us are making sacrifices to come here," he says. "Our salaries are certainly not high. But I think we all felt the same motivation to try something better." He hopes to stay in Seattle the rest of his life...
...whittle down the lead, Cassedy was satisfied to let Yale set the pace. From time to time, fencing with Bill Garnsey in the stern of the other shell, he sent his beat up, dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after two miles and a half, Quarrier, Yale No. 4, caught a crab. It was the break that Cassedy had been waiting for. This time when the Harvard beat went up, the bow of the Harvard shell began to creep along Yale's gunwhale slowly & steadily until the boats were even half a mile from the finish...
...Yale Pos. Name Age Wgt. Hgt. Prep. School Bow Meyer, C. G., Jr. '33 22 165 6.1 St. Paul's 2 Pillsbury, J. S., Jr. '35 20 175 6. St. Paul's 3 Kilborne, W. S. '35 20 175 6.2 Groton 4 Quarrier, Fitzhugh '35S 20 180 6.1 Andover 5 Urquhart, J. G. '33 21 180 6.1 Chehalis H. S. 6 Jackson, J. H. '34 21 180 6.3 Kent 7 Davis, R. M. '33 20 175 6.2 Andover Str. Garnsey, W. S., III '33 21 175 6.1 Exeter Cox. Standart, J. W. '33 24 119 5.5 Hotchkiss