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Competing in the 141-lb. division, the sophomore ranked No. 19 in the country entered the tournament unseeded, but ultimately garnered a seventh-place finish. He won two straight decisions, his second round victory impressively coming over Pittsburgh’s No. 15 Ron Tarquinio, 3-2. In the next round, he dropped to the field’s top seed, No. 6 Dylan Long from Northern Iowa, 10-5, but later went on to pin Illinois’s Michael Martin in 2:57 to secure his top-10 finish...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fresh Faces Compete at Midlands | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

...warm grey stones, on the ripe Roman skins, on vermilion and lavender and blue and ermine and green and gold, on the indecent grotesque blackness of two blotches, on apostolic whiteness and the rose of blood." After Hadrian, Rolfe managed to write a vivid small novel, Don Tarquinio, but then financial troubles closed him round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paranoid Pope | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...telling how he was once buried alive resulted in a vitriolic newspaper attack in which his history and pretensions were reviewed. This was the second step in his persecution complex. But Stories Toto Told Me (first published in The Yellow Book), In His Own Image, Hadrian the Seventh, Don Tarquinio, Chronicles of the House of Borgia and his translation (from the French translation) of Omar Khayyam won him friends and literary recognition, although he made only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Story of Story | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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