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...others instrumental in the Radcliffe triumph were Sandy Wallace and Jeannie Sinnott. Wallace volunteered to be her team's diver and, despite having no experience, finished third. She earned two fourths and a sixth in other events. Sinnott, besides swimming in the freestyle relay, had a third, fifth, and sixth in three individual races...
Other successful freshmen were Connie Cerville, who won the 100-free in 59.9 and swam both relays, and Jean Sinnott, who swam the 80-yd. individual medley in 55.8 for a first place...
Trevor has animated a whole Irish repertory company of drinkers and fantasists. While Mrs. Sinnott's son Eugene sips sherry and gambles, he allows the hotel to degenerate into a part-time brothel. But he has a vocation of sorts: to narrate proudly, compulsively, his latest nightful of dreams. And dreams of one kind or another are what get written down in Mrs. Sinnott's notebooks...
...Munich, with her efficient camera. She is a producer of coffee-table books -still-life documentaries of an atheistic priest and his parish, of the trail of a murderer in Colorado. She intends to photograph O'Neill's Hotel with pitiless clarity on the occasion of Mrs. Sinnott's 92nd birthday party. She wants to bring out all the unfuzzy truth about present and past, including why, almost 30 years before, Mrs. Sinnott's daughter and daughter-in-law had fled the hotel after an earlier birthday party...
Fanatically grubbing indecent exposures and hard sensory facts, Mrs. Eckdorf stands no chance against Trevor's Irish mist. In the end, she too longs to make her confessions to Mrs. Sinnott. Haplessly disoriented, she goes mad and finds at last the gift of dreaming...