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Bathing suits, like ground hogs, are harbingers of a sort. Flung into department store show windows in the gusty middle of March, they hold the promise of summer in every synthetic strand; mannequins plant tanned plastic legs in the cardboard surf, shading their painted eyes against a light bulb of a sun, and even the earliest shopper sniffs about anxiously for a hint of sea smell in the icy air. But by April's end, summer seems only split seconds away; across the U.S. last week, bathing suit sales began to show something of the shape to come...
Raymond plays Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...
...Scully and Vern Strand have hit for double figures in three of their last five games, and Strand is averaging 10.2 points a game, just behind team leader Dennis Lynch...
...they came back strong, taking the lead again with three minutes left, Scully again pushed the Crimson back into the lead, this time to stay, with two foul shots. The varsity held onto its one-point lead for two minutes and then in the final minute of play, Strand scored two, Inman hit another basket, and with ten seconds left, Inman iced it with a final marker...
Scully was high scorer for the Crimson with 18 points, his high for the season, Inman checked in second with 17, followed by Strand with...