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...rebounding, with the Quakers holding a 30-19 advantage over the smaller Tigers. Duncombe did most of the damage, snaring nine rebounds--seven on the offensive boards--en route to a 17-point effort. Forward Jerry Simon cleared the defensive boards with eight. Sophomore guard Paul Chambers, a walk-on one year ago, added 13 points to Penn's effort...
...times the proceedings looked more like a tragicomedy than a federal criminal trial. First a Government witness fainted on the stand, then the defendant suffered a hallucinatory breakdown and was carted off for psychiatric tests. Even nature played an impromptu walk-on part as Hurricane Hugo temporarily suspended the federal trial in Charlotte...
...Zapp's walk-on particularly illustrates, Lodge has more verve in academic settings than in his conscientiously worked-up factory scenes, and naturally so. He taught literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960 to 1987, and still holds an honorary chair there. But in either sphere his writing displays the wicked eye of a born satirist. Swallow's smile exposes teeth set at odd angles, "like tombstones in a neglected churchyard." A receptionist at Vic's factory strokes her platinum-blond hairdo "as if it were an ailing pet." This is a novel that lives...
...freshman year of college, after a five-year absence from running at any organized level, Rainey joined the Harvard track team as a walk-on and proceeded to take the Eastern track world by storm...
...Next Trick, I'll Right a Book: When asked to describe how he became an integral member of the Penn basketball team in just a couple weeks, Quaker freshman walk-on Paul Chambers replied, "I'm not going to say. I'm going to write a book...