Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MEDAL OF HONOR RAG by Tom Cole...
...first play, Tom Cole, 43, who has written short stories and a novel (An End to Chivalry), argues that it is incalculably cynical for a society to reward a man with the Congressional Medal of Honor for doing what it has taught him was evil and abhorrent -murdering other human beings. Cole's medal winner, Dale Jackson (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), a black Viet Nam hero, has cracked up. A psychiatrist (David Clennon) tries to rid Jackson of his survival guilt complex. Why did he live and his buddies die? The notion that survival can be worse than death...
...Manzione triple keyed a three-run rally in the fourth, and Bauld (again) smacked a two-run double in the next frame in the midst of a six-run upheaval. Catcher Tom Paccico finished things off in the sixth with another two-run double, and calculators on the scene did the extensive arithmetic needed to keep track of the Lion runs. In the final analysis, it was Columbia 19, Harvard...
...Tom Pura took the mound for Harvard in the bottom of the first, and six men later he was back on the bench. Columbia nailed the lefty for six consecutive hits to make the score 4-3, then picked on reliever Paul McOsker for two more hits and another marker before retiring for the inning...
...Tom, why didn't you take it easy so we could go home," one of them inquired of the John Denver look-a-like...