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...Blind boars of wind??crashed through the nervy woods," reports Jason Taylor, frightened schoolboy, as he heads toward the darker reaches of the trees, and of his imagination, in a grisly English town in 1982. "Listening's reading," he notes elsewhere, "if you close your eyes." The sounds and tastes, the trembling feelings of his world course through the wide-awake boy like channeled spirits. Yet what makes the pungent spray of syllables heart-rending is the fact that Jason is a stammerer and has to avoid certain letters even when reading aloud in class...
Sarazen, favorite in the betting before the tournament, had been six strokes behind the leaders after playing the first nine holes of his third round in 38. By coming in in 32 and starting his last round with another 32?incredibly low scoring for Fresh Meadow even without a wind???he had made his job much easier but it was still hard to believe that he would win. It became less difficult with every hole. Sarazen had pars for the first five holes of the second nine, a birdie 3 on the hard 15th. When he missed his putt...
...SOWER OF THE WIND???Richard Dehan?Little, Brown ($2.50). Much of the reader's enjoyment of this romantic tale will depend upon his feeling toward the profession of chiropody. The rush of events involves pearls, hurricanes, shipwreck, Catholicism, natives of Australia, primitive rites, a heroine of dusky beauty and high intelligence, and yet, strange as it may seem, the hero is a chiropodist. He made his fortune caring for feet in London and the Australian goldfields, and it was with his knives that he later redeemed imperfect pearls at Droone, the mythical antipode where he became a dark little power...
...grant her soldiers and a horse to carry her to the Dauphin closeted at Chinon. Her recognition of the latter in the crowded throne room, his conversion to her standard follow. Shaw then revels in an arrant trumpery when he changes before your eyes the course of a contrary wind???the Maid's "miracle" on joining the French forces before Orl?...
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