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...University of Pennsylvania, there was much ado last November over the merits of Steve Sebo as coach of the Penn eleven. Players voted in favor of ending his reign. Their sentiments received backing from the Dally Pennsylvanian, most of the student body, and many alumni, but Penn's president, Gaylord P. Harnwell, did not recognize these pressures and recently rehired Sebo for another term as head coach...
...MUCH ADO ABOUT ME (380 pp.)-Fred Allen-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Part of the charm of Much Ado About Me is its period-piece Americana. It tells of the last fun Fred Allen had being funny. To the radio years, he brought his nagging instinct for perfectionism. TV he merely lip-serviced waspishly. To Much Ado About Me (finished shortly before his death nine months ago), Allen brought not only the fondness of his memories, but the rueful tone and the hint of deri sion that, years before, led him to write...
Bookstore owners noted no single type of book as the most popular. Their bestsellers were "The Art of Loving," by Eric Fromm, "Views of Harvard," "Don Quixote," Fred Allen's "Much Ado About Me" and "Dylan Thomas' Poems...
Fred Allen's Much Ado About Me, probably one of the most ironically untrue titles of recent years, will rate as a classic history of American vaudeville--which, when one considers its importance in the number of people involved, is a highly significant activity in our history. Fred Allen seemed to stand for all that was truly true and ambitious about the business. His sense of duty was religious, his loyalty unquestionable, his integrity never impugned. And he was funny, as this book reveals, not in the broad sense in which "Allen's Alley" made him famous...