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Rude Interruption. "Coach" Woodward, as he was known to his friends, believed there were only four sports worth writing about at any length: baseball, football, horse racing and boxing. He was openly contemptuous of skiing, auto racing, golf and goono-sphere (his word for basketball). He loathed hunting. His stubborn tastes did not suit his publisher, Mrs. Ogden Reid, who insisted that he give more space to women's golf. Woodward refused. He was, said his friend Joe Palmer, "contemptuous of superiors, barely tolerant of equals and unfailingly kind to subordinates." In 1948 he was fired. "I was given...
...courage who had grown up without education and surrounded by mental and physical disease. As a doctor he had looked at sections of American life which are by many standards pathological and abnormal. In these unlikely places and among these people he saw morality, human dignity, and a stubborn, indefinable kind of hope. These paradoxical discoveries at first surprised him; they did not fit the accepted conceptual scheme. Then he accepted what he saw and turned the investigation around. What started out as a study of the sick "subjects" became in part an investigation of the scientists, of "the sane...
...this first novel is likely to stay with it to the end. The story is kept tautly suspended by a narrative skill that holds the reader even after he has begun to suspect, and rightly, that the structure is not as secure as it seemed. Len Price, a stubborn, unhappy British boy of poor and neglectful parents, lives out a fantasy life on Sundays at the London zoo. There his friend is a dotty old woman who calls him Paddy and firmly believes that his parents are both wealthy and solicitous. Len's castles crumble to make the author...
...Michigan State: a 27-13 victory over unexpectedly stubborn Indiana; at East Lansing, Mich. The No. 1-ranked Spartans were a bit surprised to find themselves trailing 13-10 in the last quarter. But then Steve Juday passed for two touchdowns, and Dick Kenney kicked a 27-yd. field goal to assure Michigan State its first Big Ten championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Other scores: Arkansas 24, Southern Methodist 3; Alabama 35, South Carolina 14; Mississippi 14, Tennessee 13; Princeton 31, Yale 6; Missouri 30, Oklahoma 0; TCU 25, Texas...
...under deeps of darkness until she lay like a stone at the farthest bottom of life, no longer aware yet alive with a peculiar lucidity and coherence; a minute fiercely burning particle of being that knew itself alone, that relied upon nothing beyond itself, being composed entirely of the stubborn will to live. Trust me, the hard unwinking angry point of light said. Trust me. I stay...