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...year ago, it was the wonder team of Massachusetts schoolboy basketball, led straight to the state title by a seven-ft. sophomore center and a hotshot guard...
Perennial puck power Matignon High captured the Eastern Massachusetts schoolboy hockey title last night, downing feisty St. John's Prep 5-3 before a roaring Boston Garden crowd...
...reputation of the Crimson's iron man, 118-pounder Paul Widerman, preceded him to the mat. Eric Sorkin, a three-time Ohio state schoolboy champion before coming to Yale, refused to confront Widerman. Sorkin's stalling techniques drew two cautions and three warnings before the referee disqualified him and awarded the bout to Widerman...
...spites. Not Smiley. Once more, Author John le Carré trots him out in a flawed and misnamed adventure: Smiley's People is actually about the people's Smiley. All of his endearing characteristics, so well catalogued in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy, are herein amplified. Now heading toward 70, the man retains the rumpled character of a professor who has forgotten his socks-and perhaps his name. Yet Smiley misses no conversational nuance, no backstairs Whitehall intrigue. Because of a few previously overlooked clues, his final assignment rises to an Olympic-scale contest...
Moeller also plays a little better than anybody else. The Moeller monolith not only bowls over all local opponents but dispatches out-of-state challengers as well. This season, Moeller crushed a perennial Detroit schoolboy power, Brother Rice High School, 33-14, then took on the flagship school of the tough western Pennsylvania mine country, Penn Hills High; score: Moeller 30, Penn Hills 13. The Crusaders' final regular season game against Mount Healthy was typical. Despite a driving rain that turned the field into a swamp, the flashy Moeller offense still operated in high gear, rolling up five touchdowns...