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The Dover Boys.The three Dover Boys, Tom, Dick, and Larry (a play on both the Rover Boys' names Tom, Sam, and Dick, and the generic reference "Tom, Dick, and Harry"), who attend Pimento University ("good old P.U."), are introduced. "A gay outing at the park has been planned by the merry trio, and they are off to fetch 'their' fiancée, dainty Dora Standpipe [a play on the name of the eldest Rover's fiancée Dora Stanhope], at Miss Cheddar's Female Academy, close by." (The occurrences of the names Pimento, Cheddar, and Roquefort are another play on words, reflecting the Rover Boys' old school of Colby Hall.) The Boys are called upon to rescue Dora when she is kidnapped by the nefarious stock villain Dan Backslide (a play on the name of the Rover Boys series villain Dan Baxter)...