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Gary Singleterry leaned back on a table in the visitors' dressing room at Holy Cross yesterday, his face racked with pain as a doctor set the broken bone in his left leg. The blond freshman punter had almost singlehandedly kept the Crimson alive in the first half, but now he was out for the season--the victim of a roughing-the-kicker tackle in the third quarter...
...moves into the newsroom, and lights dim beyond the rim of the desk. The day's debris is shoved off into the shadows. As technicians man their equipment, a makeup expert goes to work on the managing editor. At the last moment he runs a comb through his blond hair, shrugs a neatly pressed jacket over his wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero in, and CBS's Walter Cronkite Jr. begins his half-hour evening report. Now, by his own definition, his role has changed. On the color TV tube...
Alfie. "Oi'm 'ere," says Alfie. "In the flesh." That's Alfie, dead to rights. Tall, blond and (barring a little latent acne) handsome, Alfie is a mildly repulsive sort of ponce charming from Eastcheap who can't be sure he's Don Juan until he's done...
...Capricorn semisoft cheese," which goes sour before it can be sold. He is finally carted off to a Texas retreat for the mildly deranged. He might have written his poems in peace here, but mama, newly widowed, reappears to lead him off to a last encounter-with the only blond man in a town full of Mexicans. The man robs and kills Norman-a fitting nonheroic end for an unfitted non-hero...
...best first novel out of Britain is Beggars on Horseback (Atlantic-Little, Brown) by James Mossman, 39. A tall, blond and handsome TV personality who was once a British foreign-service staffer, Mossman has written a satire on colonial debacle that is almost as savagely hilarious as Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief. Mossman sets his scene in a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom on which the British are losing their traditional grip. The incumbent king is a corpulent pederast who splashes in a gold-plated bathtub while his people eat mice and provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police...