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Then again, Yale has an excellent freestyle distance man, 2:05.7 in the 220 and 4:22.1 in the 440. Yalies have long pointed to the infallibility of a certain William Chase, up till now the fastout in the East. Against Chase's times stand those of Zentgraf (2:07.5) and George Mulligan (4:48.8). But Chase had better watch...
...Wait," said the visiting violinist when the British public cheered him five years ago. "Wait till you hear my boy." For the first time last week an audience outside Russia heard the "boy" play alongside his father. The family team: famed Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh, 52, and his fast-rising son Igor...
...boss. Then, fired for a theft he did not commit, he bitterly resolves on revenge. While trying to blow the boss's safe, he is surprised by a foreman, who attacks him with a crowbar. The boy panics, shoots his assailant dead, runs wildly through the streets till he is cornered in an empty house...
...gently return him to the cruel, FBInfested world. After doing 18 months in a military prison, Demara borrows the warden's admirable prison record, gets a key job in a Texas pokey, makes a hit with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins the Royal Canadian Navy as a doctor, requests active service, performs spectacularly as a battle surgeon in Korean waters, gets his name and picture in the papers, finds himself exposed as an impostor and hailed as a Walter Mitty who makes his daydreams come true...
Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist...