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Peachum, a greedy and self-righteous rascal, and his alcholic wife (Margo Martindale) want better for their son-in-law than an infamous criminal. With little virtue of their own of which to boast, they bribe one of Mac's whores, Jenny Diver (Tiina Cartmell), into betraying him to the police. Scotland Yard is led by Mac's old army buddy, the powerful Tiger-Brown (Patrick Clean), whose own daughter Lucy (Cynthia Dickason) is also married secretly to Mac. Mac is arrested twice. The women fight for his allegiance. He is saved at the very end by a royal pardon...
Miss Johnson--everyone calls her Miss Johnson--is "generally acknowledged to be the pivot of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," Dean Rosovsky says. She is the archetypal power behind the throne. She came to Harvard in 1940 ("I hate to boast this," she says), just after she graduated from college, as a junior employee in the dean's office. Three years later, the secretary to the dean left, and she took over...
...work and exercises, then for the last half hour we skip and leap." The Graham staff's powers are being fully tested by Woody, who in a preliminary workout had trouble lining up his knees for a simple "stand-up-straight" exercise. With becoming bashfulness, Woody refuses to boast about his latest achievement. His spokesman simply says: "All Woody will say is that he's taking tennis lessons...
Providence coach Alex Nahigian likes to play basic baseball: hit-and-run, sacrifice, execute the fundamentals. But this year Providence has hitting too. Over the season the Friars have tattooed the ball at a .312 clip as a team and boast seven hitters--the two to eight men in the batting order--hitting over...
Mystery status notwithstanding, New Hampshire is, in the words of Wildcat coach Ted Conner, a team "about average in every respect, with no great strengths or real weaknesses." However, UNH can boast three outstanding hitters in Darryl Conte, Dave Bettencourt and Walter Benny, and Conner can call on a couple of solid pitchers in southpaw Bill Tufts and right-hander Buff Young...