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Thursday, October 17 THE FABULOUS SHORTS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A combined live action-animation salute to Academy Award-winning cartoons, including discussion of the art of animation by Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny. Actor Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo) is host...
...Year of the Pitcher, the award for the Series' most valuable player went, appropriately enough, to Lolich. No one approved more heartily than Mickey himself: "Everybody mentions heroes on the team, and Lolich has always been second or third best. Well, today was my day, and I'm glad it came...
...other proposal is that SFAC deal with the question of Honorary Degrees awarded by Harvard. Last summer's award to the Shah of Iran has come in for some criticism and some members of the SFAC feel that the mechanics of this particular decision-making process ought to be examined with a view to making future awards more representative of University feelings as a whole...
Cormac McCarthy is one of those few writers who go on from a well-remarked first novel to write a superior second book. His first. The Orchard Keeper, won him the William Faulkner Foundation Award for 1965, a traveling scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. His new work shows that the 35-year-old author from the backwoods of Tennessee, while still echoing the style of Faulkner, has developed into an exceptional talent...
...Sydney, Australia ("more eccentricity per square foot than anywhere"), and settled in Greenwich Village as a writer. His first novel, A Middle Class Education (1961), earned him a small reputation that has grown slowly but steadily. Last year his fourth novel, Office Politics, was nominated for a National Book Award. Now, at 37, he is justly rated as one of the nation's most gifted writers...