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...Bags Full, by Jerome Chodorov. Seme actors need funny lines to be funny. Paul Ford needs only Paul Ford. His face is in perpetual mourning; he can bat out a laugh by not batting an eye. His body is always on the point of settling, like a house. His mind works like a stopped clock, and the time is half-past McKinley. Indeed, part of what makes him so phenomenally droll is the sense that three or four entire generations have passed him by and left his features mottled in nonplused fury...
...quite enough to warrant a strictly literary biography. Biographer O'Connor, whose previous books have shown a taste for the minor figures in America's past-Bat Masterson, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Jack London-sensibly confines himself to the life and the figure of the man. Both make handsome contributions to the kind of story that O'Connor enjoys telling and consequently tells very well...
...Harvard hockey team struck out Saturday night at the Boston Garden, losing its third game of the year to Yale, 6-5. The Crimson had gone to bat for a .500 season mark, third place in the Ivy League, and a possible bid to the ECAC playoffs--and went off the ice frustrated, humiliated, and empty-handed...
...heavenward, his wispy white hair swirled about his dome like a wreath of cumulo-cirrus, his milky blue eyes shuttered in repose. Then, suddenly, everything went haywire. His left hand skittered out of control, his right did nip-ups. Harmonies collided, the tempo skidded and stumbled. Rubinstein did not bat an eye. His family and friends, huddled around the Steinway in a Manhattan hotel room, laughed heartily...
Contemplated Horror. Wisconsin Circuit Judge Elmer Roller is unimpressed. Although the Braves have already moved lock, stock and bat rack to Atlanta, he ruled last week that his court still has jurisdiction. The question before him, he pointed out, is whether or not the move violated Wisconsin law. Only a trial can provide an answer, and he wants the Braves around to play if the trial goes against them. "Pending further order of this court," he said, the Braves and the rest of the league should prepare themselves to do one of two things: either keep the Braves in Milwaukee...