Word: rocko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyman suffered in silence the nickname "Rocko." (WELCOME HOME, ROCKO, read 1945 Honesdale banners.) Growing up, Lem learned golf, polished it into his present long-drive, low-80s game (one back-home partner on Honesdale's nine-hole course: Art Wall, 1959 Masters champion...
...Rocko! What a surprise! Why of course. When will...
...Rocko double-parked his red Ferrari outside Briggs Hall the next afternoon. Tubeless, who had been waiting, ran out and embraced him, a dream in her black knit sheath and white suede greatcoat. Her wavy blond hair tangled silkily with his fingers as she crushed against him. Her matchless face was burning with anticipation...
After a tasty lunch at the club, Rocko drove across the bridge and on to Storrow Drive, made a U-turn, and found a parking space near the stadium gate. The Harvard band played them to their seats. Sunlight poured down, warming them. The nippy air filled their lungs with clean coolness. Conversation buzzed around them; martial music stirred them; they lent their voices to cheers surging like surf from the sea of happy faces. Awed by it all, they sought each other's eyes...
...last, warmed and exhilarated, a little exhausted, Rocko and Tubeless stood together on the veranda of Briggs Hall, Radcliffe, still murmuring snatches of Harvard songs, chuckling quietly, rubbing noses, and displaying similar bits of lunchy sentimentality. Rocko ran his nose along her forehead, savoring the fragrance of her clean blond hair, watching the darkness of the Briggs Hall veranda. It was only then that he noticed another couple, embracing. The girl seemed to be resisting, and as she turned her head away from her escort, Rocko heard her speak: "Oh don't, Hubert. Please, Hubert. Don't ruin it." Rocko...