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...smooth exterior a creep held over from the fifties who's reported to be making it with his tutor's wife. Most importantly, Mike and Cootie, two blithe spirits, masters of the put-on, who pretend to hold-the show together through the incantatory appeal of their preposterous school-boy jive...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Moonchildren | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

ANYONE WHO expected to hear thoughtful criticism of the Center for International Affairs during the guided tour last week must have been disappointed. Like most school-boy trips to a zoo, the November Action Committee's visit to "our own local jungle" was dominated by a feeling of juvenile amusement rather than educational interest...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Money and the Social Scientist | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...sophomore, Baker usually ran second behind senior Dave Allen, and he finished 40th in the IC4A's that year. As a freshman, Baker was considered the greatest distance runner ever to enter Harvard: he had run a 4:14.9 mile and a 9:14 two-mile as an English school-boy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gould Chosen 1967 Soccer Captain; Baker Reelected to Head Harriers | 11/22/1966 | See Source »

...heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed; by growing up we have passed out of the author's small in-group into the unappreciative outside world...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: More on Seymour | 2/28/1963 | See Source »

...simultaneous meet at the home pool, Freshman swimmers will toe the mark today against Andover and its school-boy champion, Johnny McLane, who, in a practice meet against the Crimson last month set an unofficial national scholastic record of 2:01.5 for the 200 yard freestyle event. The Yardling record stands at two wins and one loss for the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Meet Lion Today As Ulen Forecasts Crimson Victory | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

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