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...Dever Victory Headquarters" consists of two spacious floors in the plushly modern Burdett Secretarial School. In the main room, about 100 by 50 feet, around fifteen people wandered about or scribbled postcards telling "All good Democrats" to register. All about, the flexible-bracket fluorescent lamps hummed busily. In the adjoining room, a cluster of men reclined in leather chairs watching baseball on a television set. We consulted with the Publicity man's secretary who promised to swamp us with handouts as soon as the printing presses began grinding them...
...exaggerated it, overplayed it and touched it up with interludes of near-slapstick adventure. His Richard Black of Gorker Street in Cincinnati decides to become a great writer at the age of nine, and on his attic typewriter pounds out stories of Tan the Wonder Dog, of Detective Jim Burdett, of the tenth-round comeback of Battling Ramsey. Later, influenced by Caldwell, Hemingway and Faulkner, he turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years older than himself) of a law student. After they have hitchhiked...
John Altrocchi and Bill Mobraaton are currently sitting insecurely on the varsity bench and putting in appearances at some of the jayvee games. Kopp can not count on them for other practices or games, and whether the two will be racking up points against Burdett Junior College this afternoon is a most point...
With a record of eight wins and three defeats put away, the Jayvees are set on writing off Burdett as one more victory to their credit before the heavy end of the season comes up. Dartmouth, Yale and a loudly-publicized fracas with the Crimson Freshmen loom big to the insecurely lined-up Jayvees...
Kopp will probably give the nod to the same quintet that trounced Burdett in its opener and went down before the Brockton YMCA five Wednesday night. John Altrocchi and Bill Mobraaten will line up in the forward posts with Dick Covey and Chuck Brynteson covering the guard positions and Frank Lionette at center. Lanky Pat Dailey will see part time action in the pivot post, while John Goldsmith and Dave McGiffert will get a chance to fill in at the forward slots...