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...tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete . . . I'm not an athlete!" Olympic Qualifiers Vern Wilson of Santa Clara (Calif.) Y.C. and little Phil Reavis of Villanova dropped out as the bar rose. Only 19-year-old Charley Dumas (rhymes with humus) of Compton Junior Collie was left...
...this fact, the novel The Long View might be a work of art. Its theme-the defeat of the ingrown English middle class-has been needleworked by such skilled knitters and tatters as Ivy (Men and Wives) Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth (The House in Paris) Bowen. The Long View knits up the raveled sleeve of middle-class tweed. As in the work of her greater exemplars, Author Howard shows the old, secure, middle-class family house to be falling, and her characters speak in those elliptical, strained asides of snooty English people who would rather drop a friend than...
...freshman crew, Coach Bill Leavitt made only one addition before going to Red Top. The new oarsman is Dean Wood, who will row at five. Although underdogs like the rest of the Crimson crews, the freshmen, encouraged by their performance against Princeton in the Compton Cup race, should give the Elis a close battle...
...After eating the dust of John Landy and Jim Bailey while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played...
...Enrico C. S. Molnar of Compton, Calif., Episcopal priest, onetime Methodist : "To my mind our Communion most fully expresses the marks of being the 'extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is no Index! For in the Anglican Communion there is most fully expressed the basic Christian belief that God reveals Himself, not in esoteric abstract speculation, but in history, 'in events through which we event,' in a St. Francis, in a St. John Hus, in the Celtic Saints...