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...Freshman or Varsity teams. Two first-round knockouts have been chalked up to his credit, the first when he floored Fierman of M. I. T. in the initial encounter, and the second when he landed his haymaker on Joe Zautra of New Hampshire last Saturday. He seems like another Brad Simmons in his punching ability, and is remarkably fast for a man of his size. He prepared at Exeter where he was captain of football, sustaining an injury to his knee in the game against the Freshmen last year, which prevented his playing for Harvard last fall...
Although Waldemar Wysocki lands great slamming blows, after the manner of Brad Simmons, he doesn't follow them up, and was outclassed in the 165-pound division by Andrew Stuart. Dwight Ellis, 145 pounds, overcame his short reach to fight to a draw with Raymond Carter...
...tale opens, the whole family is on a train, bound for "The Grove," their summer home in Rhode Island. Mark Waring is an Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...
Nineteen-nineteen brings a great gathering of the Warings at The Grove. Dicky and Brad are back from the War. Linda, now 21, rejects Thornton, her War fiancé, then weakens and accepts him. Brad reluctantly decides to give up medicine for business. Dicky involves himself with Ellen, a neurotic. Best friend Joel who has always loved Linda looks on helplessly...
...Linda, most colorful member of the family, who turns to Joel, wavers between him and her small son, finally decides to divorce Thornton. Luly, mother and grandmother, dies. When in 1931 Mark Waring decides to sell The Grove for what it will fetch in bad times to save Brad, no one objects. Its day and its kind of hospitality are over...