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...there who's good, then I'm sure to know his coach, or else I know somebody else who does. And if we can get an alumnus to talk to him and he still doesn't have the desire to send in a goddamn letter of application, then for Pete's sake, who wants...
...said, and immediately knew he had made amistake. In his family Lou was the only one allowed to take the Lord's Name in vain--it was like a franchise, Carlo knew and you can get in a lot of trouble by messing around with franchises. "I mean, for Pete's sake," he corrected, "it's not that bad. I mean, there are lots of good people here, too. They have these clubs where you can go and it's nice as hell, I mean heck, all you have to do is know somebody in there and then...
...situation was beginning to make sense. College officials huddled on the matter and decided they had to confront this Pete Brown/Joe Smith and find out what was going on. "We got everybody alerted--and started doing detective work," Jewett recalls...
...teacher replied, "Yes, but his name is Pete Brown, not Joe Smith...
Finally, after weeks of trying to get a hold of the guy, the officials nabbed him in a stake-out at Mem Hall where he was scheduled to take a fine arts mid-year exam. After several hours of denials Pete Brown offered the following explanation. Smith was a vague friend of Brown's who had gone to the same high school. When Smith decided not to go to Harvard--he had indeed enrolled in an area school--Brown decided to assume his identity. He forged letters of recommendation and, in order to get his name changed to Peter Brown...