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Karen Lindsey, freshwoman sensation Mary Howard, and senior Cha-Nan Tang, all wristed shots in the final moments. But despite their efforts, and the sterling playmaking of left-inner Gwill York, Radcliffe was unable to break a shutout hex that has haunted them in recent outing...
...wasn't a Fenway crowd. Why not? Where were the hippies, the highschool kids, the experienced bleacher-sitters? Tickets had been expensive, it's true--$10 for grandstand, $15 for upper box--and fifty or a hundred bucks is a lot of money to spend on one family baseball outing. But this was the World Series; diehard fans should have been willing to pay extra, to go to the bank for money orders, to drive them downtown late at night so that the orders would be postmarked 12:01 a.m. on the first legal day of ticket-buying...
...breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes, "You probably knew a while back." He is, in his own term, "grandstanding"; even veteran aficionados will be hypnotized by this witty, complex...
...Depuis' play at the sweeper position drew kudos from coach Deborah Field, who feels her 1-4-1 squad has been making strides with every successive outing...
Radcliffe coxswain Nancy Hadley takes a bit more serious approach to tomorrow's outing. "It takes a lot of aggressiveness and a much different mental discipline to keep going and going and going...