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...drew first blood and looked well on its way to its thirteenth straight triumph in the second inning when Charlie Santos-Buch led off with a bunt attempt that Columbia third baseman Ed Backus muffed. Santos-Buch moved to third when Tommy Joyce's grounder found its way between Bart Purcell's legs, and then loped home on Rich Trembowicz's single to left to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
Screenplay by DENNE BART PETITCLERC
Beauty and Mystery. Denne Bart Petitclerc's script drastically compresses and rearranges Hemingway's story. At times this is all to the good: Petitclerc shears away reams of embarrassingly arch, blustery episodes and mannered barroom colloquies. Too often, though, what he salvages tends toward the simplistic and the soapy. This tendency is hardly helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when...
...American professional athletics is the brotherhood of championship quarterbacks. Its circle is limited, and members tend to be intolerant, even contemptuous, of nonmembers, no matter what their claims to greatness. Bobby Layne, the roistering old Lion, quarterbacked teams that won championships in the N.F.L. He belongs. So do Bart Starr, who won five, Johnny Unitas, Norm Van Brocklin and Joe Namath. Francis Asbury Tarkenton, 36, is not a member. Though he has won three conference championship games, Tarkenton...
...Centauri, as it was about four years ago; and some of the farther galaxies as they looked billions of years ago. Peering into the heavens then is like looking back into time, and some of the stars that astronomers see may no longer exist. Truly, as André Schwarz-Bart wrote in The Last of the Just: "Our eyes register the light of dead stars...