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...Dollarton, near Vancouver, B.C., and married again, this time an actress-turned-mystery-story writer, Margerie Bonner (The Last Twist of the Knife). The newly weds happily roughed it with coal-oil lamps, driftwood fuel and an outdoor privy. Lowry, a barrel-chested man with piercing blue eyes, drank, swam, drank, sang bawdy Spanish ditties to his own ukulele accompaniment, and drank. When the cottage caught fire, he was badly burned rescuing the entire manuscript of Under the Volcano, which came to be the one and only literary success of Lowry's life. At his death he was drafting...
...Hunter's competitors will be Lance Larson of Southern California. Larson and Hunter swam the 100-meter event in the 1960 Olympics; Hunter finished fourth, and Larson was declared second in a controversial finish with Australia's John Devitt...
...soldiers were small, laughing men. floppy as rag dolls in their outsized American fatigues, wearing socks of rice about their chests. In five weeks, they had advanced exactly eight miles along Astrid Highway, a dirt scar grandly named to commemorate the visit years ago by a Belgian queen. They swam in mountain streams, stole pigs, got drunk on rice whisky, and occasionally fired their U.S.-supplied 105-mm. howitzers in the general direction of the enemy. (They disliked the idea of shooting at anybody with a rifle, since it is not permissible for any good Buddhist to knowingly kill another...
...Crimson half a length up on Princeton. Kaufmann was credited with a new pool record. But Princeton's Green really poured it on with a 1:02.5 breast-stroke leg that left him a length and a half ahead of Crimson captain Bill Schellestede. who swam...
Alan Engelberg gained a length back with a 54.7 butterfly, and then three freestylers--Greist of Princeton, Bill Zentgraf of the Crimson, and Ashley Norfleet of Navy--battled it out. Greist swam 50.3 and just held off Norfleet, who covered the 100 in 48.8. Zentgraf's 49.5 brought 'he Crimson home a close third. Princeton's winning time, 3:45.1, set meet and pool marks...