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...blessing. For many who treasure an older, quieter London, the haystack hair, the suspiciously brilliant clothes, the chatter about sex and the cheery vulgarity strike an ugly contrast with the stately London that still persists in the quieter squares of Belgravia or in such peaceful suburbs as Richmond. They argue that credulity and immorality, together with a sophisticated taste for the primitive, are symptoms of decadence. The Daily Telegraph's Anthony Lejeune two weeks ago decried "aspects of the contemporary British scene which have not merely surprised the outside world but which increasingly provoke its contempt and derision...
...ruggers started their win skein by shutting out the Richmond Rugby Club 3-0 April 3. Back John Dickinson got the only score of the match on a long dropkick in the second half...
...Southern tour, the tennis team was soundly walloped by a couple of top notch teams. After an 11-10 loss to the Westwood Country Club of Richmond, Virginia, Coach Jack Barnaby split his team into two units, sending Unit A through Georgia and Unit B through the Carolinas...
Captain Quentin Spector and President Lloyd Macdonald have been driving the team through hard night practices in Carey Cage in preparation for the season which starts April 3 in Richmond, Va. An unprecedented 50 members from all over the University have come out for the spring team...
...Richmond D. Considine, an ex-writer, "once a celebrity in the outside world where celebrity seems to matter," is crippled by arthritis and presides over his family in a remote forest clearing on the Whanganui River in the North Island of New Zealand. His wife, mother of all but one of the children, buys groceries by teaching school. Seasons pass; in the end the family is "rescued" from rural misery and taken downriver to a big house in town. Only Huia, a half-Maori girl sired by one of Considine's sons, remains behind to live as a Polynesian...