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...lightweights have the first full-time varsity coach since Bert Haines retires in 1952. He is Bo Andersen, a 1966 Dartmouth graduate from Vienna...
...Chiefs brag that their offensive line is the biggest in either league, averages 253 lbs. from end to end. Kansas City has three of the A.F.L.'s ten top rushers: Halfback Garrett (566 yds.) is No. 5, Halfback Bert Coan (476 yds.) is No. 6, and Fullback Curtis McClinton (408 yds.) is No. 7. Quarterback Len Dawson, a natural rollout passer who could not make it with the N.F.L.'s Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, has come into his own in Coach Hank Stram's "movable pocket" passing offense; he has hit on 57% of his passes...
...binding is not a book, and the book has been lost in transit. The "I" of Isherwood's Berlin camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth...
...summer of 1965, two fledgling producers named Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider put an ad in Daily Variety for "4 insane boys, aged 17-21." Out of 437 would-be lunatics who showed up to audition, Rafelson and Schneider picked David Jones, 20, a 5-ft. 3-in. former jockey from Manchester, England; Mickey Dolenz, 21, a former child actor from Hollywood; Peter Tork, 24, a college professor's son from Connecticut; and Mike Nesmith, 23, an Army brat from Texas. Only two of them could read music at all professionally, and only two had ever acted before. None...
...Manhattan nightclub Downstairs at the Upstairs. She is very funny potatoes indeed, and she delivers with plenty of peeling. She tells about the time she was playing Omaha. "I was staying in a hotel where there was a bake-off contest. All the women drove up in their tractors. Bert Parks was there. He sang the bake-off song. The judges consisted of Kate Smith." Or the time in England that she saw the Queen Mother. "She's so cute. I saw her walking in front of Clarence House in her miniskirt. She's looking, you know. After...