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Newton native was the 17th selection in the NHL draft in June...first American schoolboy player selected...chosen by the Calgary Flames...Belmont Hill School graduate...will add size to Crimson blue-line corps...member of U.S. Junior National team at Finland...
...genius. Who could miss his radiant classicism, his ardent romantic style, his deportment as a diffident young god? Never presenting himself on- or off-stage as "a star," he had a solitary air that his huge blue eyes only underscored. In fact he was starting out with only schoolboy French, no English, no clear idea of where to settle or which dance company to join...
...owner, should be fed "small rodents, twice daily." Contest sponsors emphasized that a child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs in design. A case in point was Robert C. Manson, who grew obsessed with paper planes as a schoolboy and now, at 26, is a design engineer for Pratt & Whitney in Montreal. He explained: "What makes a paper plane fly well, the lift and balance and aerodynamic design, is what makes a real plane fly well. The principles are the same...
...book also includes such poignant anecdotes as Carl Yastrzemski's refusal to admit he was going to retire because that meant giving in to pitchers; Fred Lynn's ten consecutive home runs in batting practice mechanically placed clockwise across the outfield; Jim Rice's exhaustion as hardworking schoolboy ballplayer who also held down a job; coach's yell of "no, no" as "go, go" and being thrown out at the plate to kill a World Series rally, Yet once again they seem better suited to a newspaper column than to a book of this length...
...seemed to have inserted a pestle into my cerebellum during the night, and was now using the inside top of my skull as a mortar." A native politely informs him, "You got drunks like a man who still lives in his mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks in the ground for foods." Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs a dry, self-deprecating style that cannot disguise the team's gifts for fresh and arresting description. Fenton calls the black- naped oriole "the flaming youth...