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...college-inspired novels this side of Fitzgerald's Paradise have been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate. Its off-centerpiece, Billy Williams, literally starts off on the wrong foot by stepping on the college master's dachshund at a cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese...
...drown you with, my dear!), and carrying on in various ways with a pretty governess and a pair of fresh-faced children borrowed from Henry James. Brando is Peter Quint, the ghostly valet of The Turn of the Screw turned into a gardener. The governess is Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), his haunting paramour. The film's Big Idea is to make precise what James left terrifyingly ambiguous: just how Quint and Jessel died, and what they did to corrupt poor young Flora and Miles before James' story begins with the arrival of a new governess...
...HANS BEACHAM Mexico City...
...would take him on as a salesman, he quit the company, went out on his own and got a job in the sales office of the Ford assembly plant in Chester, Pa. Impressed by the way the aggressive Iacocca whipped lagging Ford dealerships to higher sales, his boss (Charles Beacham, now Ford's marketing vice president) took him along when he progressed to sales manager of a region stretching from Pennsylvania to Florida...
...classroom of Geography Master John Beacham. 32. who was to lead the trip, had been decorated for months with Norwegian flags, travel posters and fjord-toothed maps of Norway. The library copy of The Young Traveler in Norway was dirty and dog-eared from long use. For months, the boys had been working hard at odd jobs to save $76 apiece, the price of the trip. Last month, Dennis Field, son of one of the school's cleaning women, reluctantly gave up his place because he could not afford it. Quentin Green and another boy promptly applied...