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Nothing went right for the varsity. Dave Abbott suffered an appendix attack right on the field of play; Lew Soule, recovering from separated shoulders, had his glasses broken; Hans Estin had a twisted ankle...
Coach Bruce Munro had to play games with his three regular midfields, only one of which was whole. Abbott had been substituting for ankle-injured Paul Davidson when he got the preliminary cramps; Rick Hudner shifted from attack to take his place...
...second just 3.6 seconds behind the winner, Stewart of Dartmouth, who was a member of this year's Olympic ski team. Bob Fisher came in seventh, Bob Wood, eleventh, Roger Wilson, fourteenth, and Vin Brandt, seventeenth. Crimson captain Graham Taylor came in ninth in 54.0, closely followed by Gordon Abbott, tenth. Captain elect Rod Nordblom was twelfth, Don Justus, thirteenth, and Laurie Grifflin fifteenth...
...seems producers, even very successful ones like George Abbott, will never learn that a funny idea and a few dangling gags cannot make a good stage comedy. Mr. Abbott, the producer of the new comedy by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein, should have been able to see that even the two-line jokes were infrequent and that the basic humorous situation in the play was written completely without the writers' consulting their hearts. The results is a painfully strained, unoriginal, play about some people who are either incredibly stupid or plain contemptible...
...they do. I know I don't share Mrs. Gibbons' attitude (and the writers') towards her three juvenile delinquents, Ma Gibbons' love-blindness, the probable cause of their disrespect for the law, seems to me to be tragic rather than comic. What the hell are you laughing about, Mr. Abbott...