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...Harvard golfer, Pat Kenary, has repeatedly turned in strong performances. The freshman came in ninth at the NCAA Division I qualifiers held recently in Patowomat, RI...
Just the cadence of their names--Dan Ma-ri-no, Joe Mon-ta-na--the similarity of their bearing and stock--Pennsylvania grimy--the disparity of their builds and sun coasts--Miami and San Francisco--the level of their confidence, the quality of their arrogance, even the way they can make hair curl up under helmets and stand up on necks suggested a confrontation was coming one day. If all of the National Football League quarterbacks were ringed in a battle royal, wouldn't these two be the ones left standing at the end? That roughly describes the process...
Despite the setback, the Crimson remain optimistic. "Our goal is to improve with each game and get ready for Dartmouth on January 5," said MacDonald. Providence College, 7-1 at Providence RI Harvard 1 0 0--1 Providence...
Editor Robert Phelps has made the most of Colette's sensuous prose. Thirty-one stories in this volume have never before appeared in English, and 29 others have received fresh translations. Devotees of Gigi, Chéri and The Vagabond will encounter some of the author's familiar characters as she first conceived them: ravishing courtesans, indolent young gigolos and harried music-hall artists...
Colette's preparatory sketches for her masterworks Chéri (1920) and The Last of Chéri (1926) show how hard she labored to achieve an effect of lapidary simplicity and ease. The fledgling gigolo Chéri made his first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called Clouk. "When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting...