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...squad's only outstanding back, a triple-threat Massachusetts scoring champ in 1952, may in fact miss one or two of the team's opening games because of an injured ankle. Walter Stahura, powerful Yardling failback and former schoolboy star at Deerfield Academy, should at least miss next Friday's freshman A team opener with Dartmouth. He will probably be replaced by John Hennessy...
...Hooper, another schoolboy captain, capable of circus catches and outstanding defense work, will be at left end, with Bob Cathcart on the right side...
...rich Englishman waiting in a crevasse." Before the reader can say "Grüss Gott!" the three of them are belaying their way toward the summit, along with a tepid villain whom Rudi also rescues, for good measure. By the author of The White Tower and aimed at the schoolboy trade, this is a slick, readable fictionalized account of the 1865 conquest of the Matterhorn: half as high as Mt. Everest, and nearly half as interesting...
...midseason Willie Mays and his home-run bat were the hottest pair in the National League. Swinging with the delight of a schoolboy and the skill of an old pro, the loose, limber centerfielder of the New York Giants had clouted 30 homers to threaten Babe Ruth's alltime record of 60 in one season...
...ruin of her snobbish plans. And when one day Leo glimpses a few lines in one of Marian's letters ("Darling, darling, darling, same time, same place, this evening"), and is struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could she have sunk so low? To be what we [schoolboys] all. despised more than anything-soft, soppy . . . a subject for furtive giggling . . . No wonder she wanted it kept secret...