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...also found new stars. He gave Grace Kelly the lead in her first TV drama, two years before High Noon. When James Dean died a week before rehearsals were to begin on a version of Hemingway's The Battler, Coe had young Paul Newman step in; it was a starmaking turn...
Brush (2-0, 6.43), whom Walsh calls "a battler," managed to beat both Pennsylvania and Yale after falling behind early...
...timely jumpers from all over the floor. In three terms as a Democratic Senator from New Jersey, the Missouri-born, Princeton-educated Bradley (Rhodes scholar, 1965-67) has also been a pretty good team player. He worked hard for his state and was a determined if quixotic battler for such causes as tax reform, equitable water distribution in California and retributive justice for South Dakota's Lakota Sioux...
BILL BRADLEY (+5) A keeper. A foreign-trade geek with national stature, a battler and former pro-basketball player who can add sports-star pals to the Clinton cavalcade. Drawback: Is America ready for a double Rhodes Scholar ticket...
...Vichy government condemned Marie-Louise Giraud to the guillotine for the crime of performing abortions. She was one of the last three women executed in France. If her story were made into an American TV movie, Giraud would cut one of two familiar figures. She might be a pioneer battler for reproductive rights, bravely tending to the misery of her countrywomen. Or she could be the cold and soulless predator, robbing a besieged nation of its progeny...