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Check local listings for date and time: NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "Thirteen Against Fate: The Lodger," first in a series of Georges Simenon mysteries, tells the story of a family that discovers one of its favorite boarders is a murderer, but cannot bear to turn him in to the police...
WALTON: THE BEAR (Angel). British Composer William Walton premiered this one-act gem only a year ago. He was fortunate in finding an excellent librettist (an increasingly rare breed of writer) named Paul Dehn, who based his freewheeling lyrics on Chekhov's farce. Walton's eclectic styles are more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal...
...quite accurate to say that George Stanley Halas invented pro football. He was, after all, only seven months old in 1895 when the first pro game was played. But after almost five decades as player, coach and owner, "Papa Bear" of the Chicago Bears does have a couple of impressive credits in the football record book. One is the longest run (98 yds.) with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe) in the history of the National Football League. Another is the National Football League...
Over 39 seasons as Chicago's coach, Halas led the Bears to six N.F.L. championships and eight divisional titles, compiled a record of 321 victories against 142 losses and 31 ties. A master strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra...
Boot Off the Bench. Halas' sideline pyrotechnics will be missed most by Chicago fans. Teeth clenched, hands thrust deep into his overcoat pockets, he raced up and down the field, bellowing at his players, badgering officials, blatantly coaching from the sidelines. Trying to lend moral assistance to a Bear field-goal attempt, he once booted a 240-lb. guard right off the bench. Another time, he curtly ordered a rookie: "Taylor, we've run out of timeouts. Go in and get hurt...