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...days--the decaying South and oppressed Africa--have considerable merit. The first, Told About One Spring, by Edward Cumming, is a first-person narrative which is well-paced and smooth throughout, with character and plot development fully integrated. The subject is a trite one--the love affair of a schoolboy and an older woman--and there are no original embellishments to distinguish this story from myriad other chronicles of the Modern South. But as an exercise in getting a series of messy situations and emotions down on paper with maximum clarity, the story is both skilful and fun to read...
...rounds, Lee pinned Rush of the U.S. Navy, Coursen of Springfield, Rose of Long Island, and Haney of the Baltimore Y.M.C.A. In a fourth round match, leading by a fair margin. Lee rolled over on his own shoulders in applying a cradle hold to Armand Taylor, a Norfolk, Virginia, schoolboy, and since Olympic touch-fall rules were followed in the tournament, was declared loser. Blubaugh placed first and Taylor second...
...What a Life!" Truman has never escaped a sort of schoolboy wonder at being President, and he expresses his wonder in schoolboy terms. Here is a diary entry...
...Brown, Garden-Arena entrepreneur, announced at the final Hockey Writers Luncheon that the ice would be taken out of the St. Botolpn Street Ice Palace and replaced by a permanent basketball floor. As a result, the Boston Garden will have to bear the entire load of professional, college, and schoolboy hockey in the Metropolitan area beginning next season. Although their big games (B.C.-B.U., and Harvard vs. other Pentagonal League teams) will still take place in the North Station refrigerator, local colleges will have to scare up their own practice ice as a result of Brown's move...
John Howard Davies somehow manages to keep his portrayal of Tom from falling into the superficial cliches of the usual schoolboy hero, and Robert Newton saves Thomas Arnold from becoming the well-known, stock Kindly Schoolmaster...