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...Crimson as a whole played a strong game, although no one player was outstanding. J.V. high scorers were Arnie Singal and Roger Rawdon, both with 16 points. The team lost one of its best shots when Bob Repetto, who had previously scored 12 points, fouled out in the fourth quarter...
Miss Roy, a comely Manitoba-born French Canadian who had also tried her hand at schoolmarming and amateur acting, was well-pleased with her success-and her $3,000 in royalties. But she went right on working in her home at rustic little Rawdon (pop. 2,000) in Quebec's Laurentian mountains. Then a happy chance, of the kind she had written about, befell...
...cypress and liveoak river bottoms of South Carolina's coastal fringe near Charleston are festooned with Spanish moss and legend. Here Generals Sumter, Greene and Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox") harried Tarleton and Lord Rawdon at the Revolution's end. Here Sir Peter Parker's fleet was defeated at Sullivan's Island by General Moultrie, whose name was given to one of the forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers...
...hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly, who says he likes his rock-ribbed home, share their felicity virtually alone...
...Welldon '04, "Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne"-W. M. Thackeray...