Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was one other score. Second team passer Frank Champi, a junior from Everett, moved his unit down the field easily in his first confrontation with the first defensive unit. A javelin thrower who held the University record for a month last spring, Champi can heave the football. In the touchdown drive, he hit junior bantamweight John Ballantyne with a bullet. Ballantyne made a fine leaping catch for 30 yards to the defense 10. A few plays later, Champi connected with Newcomer Skip Vaccarello for a six yard...
Stowell hesitantly admits that after only a year in the event Nosal is "in my estimation the best freshman hammer thrower that we have ever had" and "for only having thrown the weight for a year, probably the best freshman 35-1b. weight thrower ever in this country...
...occasion is a birthday party for Harold (Leonard Frey), an event as ominous for a homosexual as for an aging woman with its reminder that good looks can fade and desirability diminish. The party thrower (Kenneth Nelson) is a tormented Roman Catholic, undergoing psychoanalysis, who secretly hates himself and makes anti-homosexual quips in the same way that some Jews tell anti-Semitic jokes. Each of his friends has his own hangup. A Negro known as "the queen of spades" suffers rejection because of his unrequited love for a heterosexual white boy. One couple is undergoing an emotional rift...
...final act makes that abundantly clear, after the unanticipated arrival of the party thrower's former college roommate. The newcomer, who is sexually "straight," is torn between revulsion and a hypnotized curiosity, and cannot bring himself to leave. A savage game begins, rather too patly adapted from the "Get the Guests" scene in Albee's Virginia Woolf, called "Affairs of the Heart." Each player must say "I love you" over the telephone to the person he has most dearly loved in his life. All drunk by now, the partygoers guzzle this witch's brew of truth...
This type of display prompted Shepherd to say, "Del Rossi was a brilliant sort of pitcher. You won't find any college pitcher who knew how to put into application the tools of pitching better than Del Rossi. He was not just a thrower out on the mound. He was an artist...