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Happily, Dave had the smooth-muscled and supple physique to handle his strenuous coaching. He was a three-letter man in high school (baseball, football and basketball); when he graduated he had no trouble getting a scholarship from Duke University. Dave so impressed Duke coaches with his speed on the...
As in his other excellent novels, Aymé's sharply observed background is a backdrop against which quite ordinary people play out parts they never asked for. Things happen, they get involved, and voila! A cool customer. Author Aymé himself never gets involved. He looks on with malice...
High Command. In San Francisco, after he was arrested and fined for doing 75 m.p.h. on the Golden Gate Bridge Frederic E. Supple Jr. told the judge: "My wife phoned and told me to come right home."
Mud & Noses. During the first term, there were plenty of diversions: the rushing by the four houses, the subsequent indignities after getting in (coolie hats, false noses, etc.), adjustment to the fact that class attendance is optional and that exams are run by the honor system. But there were also...
Analytical v. Descriptive. After the first year, Supple began to take more engineering, and Andelin more physics and chemistry. But they were both getting the same kind of education-one that does not tell a future engineer how to make a better thermostat, but gives him, instead, all the principles...