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Message: [QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 4394241, member: 35"] Thank you [!!!] for the mentions of Chip Hilton/Coach Rockwell. My favorite books way back in the day...written by Clair Bee. Got them for birthdays and Christmas...just loved them. Toss in a few other names: Biggie Cohen/Speed Morris/Chip's Mom...Mary/ Soapy Smith [not sure about his last name]. Chip was always the star QB...the star pitcher...and in hoops the Dee Taurasi of that day...5 position player. Valley Falls High and State U had Chip...nobody else did! Confession: about a year ago I happened to see a mention of that series and thought it would be fun to track a book down and see if it held up 65 years later. The local library [here in the Adirondacks] had zero of the series and tried to find one elsewhere. Well...a couple of weeks later they presented me one...which they had received from a small town in West Virginia....give the local library an A+ for effort. The last time that book had been signed out was 1979....yikes! My current review of the book which I had read before [of course]. Partly entertaining...partly amusing with some dated language by Bee...brought back wonderful memories. Uhhh...for being Mr.Perfect Chip did get into somewhat regular fights...of course always on the side of righteousness...and always winning. [/QUOTE]