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SoHo's "gold dust twins," Jim "Bilko" Pelgrift and Nick Golden, spearheaded three touchdown drives. Bob Tedaldi, Pelgrift, and SoHo quarterback Joe Auteri scored on runs of two, 17, and four yards...
Died. Paul Ford, 74, horse-faced character actor who played Colonel Hall, the butt of Phil Silvers' Sergeant Bilko on TV; after a brief illness; in Mineola, N.Y. At 37, Ford decided to become an actor, scored best on Broadway as the incredulous colonel in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953) and as the dismay-ridden father-to-be in Never Too Late...
...requirements to work through first, including the death-of-the-newborn-baby scene, the man-alone-in-the-city scene, and assorted other episodes that melt together into a trampled, slushy texture. There are also a lot of standard service comedy jokes that sound like an R-rated Sergeant Bilko...
...little band that represents the Liberal Party in Britain's House of Commons has the ragtag and comically mismatched look of Sergeant Bilko's platoon. It includes a 300-lb. spring maker, a Welsh barrister, a teacher from the Scottish highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud...
Military lore is replete with tales of slick operators who fast-talk their way past obtuse superiors, navigate bureaucratic absurdities and come out winners. Sergeant Bilko of TV and Milo Minderbinder of Catch-22 are winked at as engaging barracks rogues, and most Americans only chuckle when told, as one Pentagon official said last week, that "everyone has his own racket in the Army...