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...Quaker hurler Bruce Ballard rode his club's huge lead to a complete game victory, as did Penn starter John Leonard, with an even stronger (eight strikeouts, one earned run) performance in the nightcap...
...mound matchups look to be Penn's Bruce Ballard vs. Steve Baloff (3-0) in the first game, and Leonard vs. either Timmy Clifford (2-0) or lefty Paul McOsker (1-1) in the wrap-up. The bet is that Clifford will get the start because of his inspiring six-hit shutout of Northeastern on Tuesday and due to Penn's largely righty line...
...never be sure of anyone at the Ritz-not Carmine Vespucci (Jerry Stiller), the homicidal brother-in-law, not even Vivian Proclo (Kaye Ballard), Gaetano's hysterical wife-but there is one thing certain: despite stiff competition from a very funny Jack Weston, Rita Moreno runs off with the movie, stashed under Googie's unconvincing wig. It is a combustible comic performance...
Died. Florence Ballard, 32, silky-voiced background singer of the original Supremes who recorded on eight of their gold records before she was dropped from the group in 1967; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Ballard fizzled when she tried a comeback as a single act in 1968, suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and spent most of her final years in pauperism. Looking back regretfully, she once said, "It was like being on a fast-moving train that suddenly stopped...
...work and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turn to the themes and concepts" of science fiction. To Gunn, such writers represent a literary culture that is hostile to science fiction with its rational, pragmatic view of the universe. The New Wave of science fiction writers, led by Judith Merril and J.G. Ballard, have adopted some of the romantic and subjective strains of the mainstream. At issue, Gunn writes, is the continued existence of the national nature and technological slant of science fiction. He believes that while elements of mainstream literature should be adapted to science fiction, the core should be left untouched...