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...drama front, things were nearly as sticky. Betty Furness left her refrigerators long enough to fly to Hollywood to replace ailing Joan Blondell in Let's Face It, with Bert Lahr and Vivian Elaine. She might more sensibly have remained in Manhattan. On NBC. Kraft TV Theater's adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma was so filled with feminine squeals, flutterings on tiptoe and elfin men that it seemed to be played by an entire company of Mary Kays and Johnnies; on ABC, Kraft had better luck with Run for the Money, featuring Jamie Smith and Phyllis...
...female roles, Hugh Fortmiller as the fortune teller and Richard Waldron as her Dagmar daughter are by no means convincing but they are high-spirited, well attuned to the demanding deception, and add much to the show. James Gray as Bert, the newspaper managing editor, though unpadded, is another stand out. Stephen Addiss, William Newlin, and Gordon Martin range from excellent to a competency which isn't worth a quibble...
...probably a mistake for the Baltimore Colts' Bert Rechichar to boot a 34-yd. field goal early in the first quarter. It seemed to make his teammates nervous to be three points out in front of the Detroit Lions, the best professional football team in the business. Behind his own goal line to punt, just a few minutes later, Colt Quarterback Cotton Davidson got a glimpse of the whole Detroit line bearing down on him, fumbled the pass from center, watched Lion Guard Harley Sewell drop on the ball for a touchdown. After that the Colts and the crowd...
Wilde is the third former Crimson oarsman who has returned to coach the lightweights. Last fall Rouner stepped in for Ted Reynolds who graduated from the Business School after one year of coaching. The season before that, Reynolds replaced the venerable Bert Haines, who taught the 150 pounders the finer art of catch and release for over 30 years...
This coaching round-robin is a problem the Crimson carsmen share with the five other eastern colleges who race 150s. Three years ago Harvard crews were the only ones with a full-time coach. But with the retirement of Bert Haines in 1952 they too joined the carsmen of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Pennsylvania who learned from a part time coach, part-time graduate student...