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...National League, Thayer Middle moved into a first place tie with Grays, edging the latter 20 to 19. Both teams have won five and lost one. Matthews North and Straus North both received forfeit victories...
Other contests of the past week were fairly close matches, with rain cancelling Tuesday's games. Last Thursday, Dudley lost to Winthrop, 4-0, while Adams beat Leverett, 2-0. On Friday, Eliot defeated Kirkland, last year's Straus Trophy holders, 3-0, while the Funsters beat Lowell...
ROMAN TALES, by Alberto Moravia (229 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), seems to concern the ignoblest Romans of them all. Moravia's people live in small tenement rooms, work in brickyards, junkyards and poor taverns by the summer-shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves...
...preceding year. For the whole month, New York City area stores rang up 7% more sales than in last year's record August. And in the Labor Day week, stores were crowded with shoppers, notably at Macy's in Manhattan. Said Macy's Chairman Jack I. Straus: "In view of the continuing high levels of employment and consumer income throughout the nation, we anticipate fall sales to be about 6% ahead of last year...
...POETRY & POETS (308 pp.)-T. S. Eliof-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...