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...fact, when Pottetti was one of the nation's top high school runners. Tuppeny, the master recruiter, was placing weekly phone calls to the Pottetti home in Pound Ridge, N. Y. "He came to visit me at home and at school, too," Pottetti said...
...pound junior carried 35 times for 190 yards against Penn, but it was just three of those runs that prevented Cornell from being upset...
...guilt and ambition. We see him terrified of ruin and failure, compensating for his fear with self-aggrandizement, exploitation of friends, and uncompromising demands on his family. Frankly, I'm almost relieved. Somehow I can take Frost more seriously now; he seems put in the same critical boat with Pound, Eliot, and Stevens, confronting problems of real life instead of simply chopping wood and milking the cows...
Zakula aggravated an old ankle injury earlier in the week and decided to have correctional surgery performed sometime in the next two weeks. A 6' 2", 222-pound senior, Zakula caught only one pass as a junior but was being counted on for relief help this season...
Whatever excitement I missed out on this summer by not being beaten up, I made up for at work at the newspaper. We received a four-page story from an 11-year-old kid who told us how to save ducks in nearby Pound Ridge. It was handwritten, so I was assigned to type it. And of all the weddings and obituaries I wrote up, the one I liked best was the Leibowitz Katz wedding I was given to write up after I returned from lunch. During lunch I'd finished Portnoy's Complaint...