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...TAKE IT WITH YOU has been restored to Broadway with loving care and craft by the gifted APA repertory company. The comic zaniness of the Sycamore family is a delight, and an unforeseen bonus is the tender re-creation of the '30s as a golden age of moneyless innocence...
...football's bonus war, it is obviously more fun to be a private than a colonel. Weeb Ewbank, 58, earns $35,000 as coach of the American Football League's New York Jets, and this season he has already found himself in the position of trying to give orders...
...college players, and the older National Football League took 36 hours to draft 305. The Washington Redskins, whose talent for burlesque is fairly obvious (season's record: five wins, six losses), drafted Princeton Place Kicker Charlie Gogolak as their No. 1 choice, giving him a modest $15,000 bonus, and announced afterward that they were insuring Charlie's kicking foot with Lloyd's of London...
Espinosa proclaimed himself President, decreed a Christmas bonus for all work ers, and broadcast a call for popular revolt. Santiago's police chief politely invited Espinosa over to the Police Palace for "friendly talks," then unceremoniously tossed him into jail, thus ending the affair...
...linemen were "neither big enough nor quick enough." These heart-rending groans, of course, were only a tactical maneuver - designed to keep prices down. Last year competition for talent between the two pro leagues was so intense that a taxi-squad quarterback got $200,000 in bonus money, a first-stringer got $400,000, and a rookie lineman collected $150,000 just for signing a contract. This year the battle for graduating college stars figures to be fiercer than ever, if for no other reason than that each league has one new team to stock from scratch: the Atlanta Falcons...