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Yardling captain Jim Baker and Princeton's Allan Andreini went out fast in front of the pack and ran together until the final half-mile, when Baker tired. But right behind the Crimson captain was a slow of Yardlings runners who had hung on behind the leaders...
...remembrance of a youth in Illinois. His science fiction, however, has drawn him into a world he never dreamed of entering. Ingmar Bergman corresponds with him. Fran?ois Truffaut is writing the scenario for the movie version of his novel Fahrenheit 451. Christopher Isherwood has compared Bradbury to Edgar Allan Poe. And Ilya Ehrenburg says that he is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Spillane...
Bellotti generally handles comments and questions facilely but occasionally even he runs into trouble. After talking to one voter he turned to an aide and quizzed, "Who is Allan Funt?" When informed of Mr. Funt's connection with the Candid Camera television program, he explained, "Oh, somebody told me I looked like...
John O'Hara, who wrote those lines in a prologue to Sermons and Soda-Water, a trio of novellas published in 1960, likes to think of himself as a social historian whose principal medium happens to be fiction. When Historian Allan Nevins said that no one could really understand the U.S. of the 1930s without reading O'Hara's novel Butterfield 8, the author took it as the handsome compliment it was intended to be. The journalist in O'Hara ever lurks just beneath the surface of the novelist; Butterfield 8, in fact, was a piece...
...Germany's Van Gogh, but the real sources of Corinth's robust energy were the ruddy-cheeked oils of Rubens, Hals and Rembrandt. An exhaustive retrospective that opens this week at Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (see opposite page] and a graphics show at the Allan Frumkin Gallery reveal how - having apparently concluded that Germans make bad French impressionists - Corinth went on to smash the Wagnerian mold...