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...Fencing Masters, a coffeehouse gallery that displays the serious work of local artists, and the folk-song parlors, such as the Laughing Buddha in St. Louis and Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., where the Harvard boys listen reverently to the excellent voice of Joan Baez, 20, singing Wildwood Flower and All My Trials...
...blind girl riding the roller coaster? People on the amusement pier in Wildwood, N.J. were wondering about it one sunny day last summer. They watched her clutching her escort's arm during the stomach-wrenching ride; it seemed to freeze her into terrified silence...
Last week, with his rabbit's foot dangling at his belt, Roanoke's champ coolly sized up 39 rival deadeye marbles champs from Montana to Georgia. Larry had to lick them all to win the 23rd annual National Marbles Tournament at Wildwood...
...marbles champion, like the two previous champs, was a boy from Pittsburgh. He was wan, twelve-year-old Benjamin Sklar, son of Russian-born parents. Ben had borrowed the well-worn agate shooter of the Pittsburgh kid who won the crown two years ago. He had also prepared for Wildwood's fast rings by doing most of his marble-shooting on an asphalt tennis court near his home on Winterburn Avenue. His secret: "Just roll it into the ring and put a little spin on it, that...
...Wildwood is at once persuasive and exasperating. The agony is laid on deftly, sometimes almost impalpably. But the question persistently gnaws: is this a work of serious literature, as the author obviously desires it to be, or just a nice little melodrama spoiled by oversolemnity? A heroine so ready with tears, who walks among flowers "almost crushed with their perfection," is annoying as well as sympathetic, and is perhaps just not worth taking seriously enough to write a whole novel about...