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Kowalski, the muscular brawler and bowling team captain. But it is fatal,
though, to play by his rules, as Blanche DuBois’s scorecard shows.*
University of Southern Mississippi
Philip C. Kolin
Notes
* I am grateful to AUean Hale for reading an earlier draft o f this paper and for calling to
my attention W illiams’s short-lived career as a college wrestler.
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