Luke Randall wasn't exactly what you'd call a good-looking guy, not even half-ways worthy of a second glance from a girl's viewpoint. In fact as far as that was concerned, there weren't any girls in Trinity, Idaho had gotten as far as even HAVING a viewpoint as to Luke's particular existence.
Now nineteen, he had somehow completed his education at Westmore High, his grades having been no more impressive than his peer-ranking. Perhaps his science lecturer had nailed it succinctly when he wrote on Luke's essay Atomic Fission: The Post War Challenges