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Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
Though the Crimson line held the Columbia offense well, the Lions themselves often seemed to make the defensive job easier. Coach Buff Donelli introduced a few surprise formations in the game--the split-T with a man in motion and a variation of the single wing which he calls the X formation--but they seemed to confuse his own men more than the Crimson. Several big losses and a few of the fumbles were due to missed backfield connections on these plays, flashy as they semed when they worked, and Donelli probably wishes he had given his team more practice...
Director Cheek, a Tennessee-born architectural buff with a graduate degree from Yale ('35), was prepared to prove his point. He asked experts to pick the "Twelve Best Buildings in the Old Dominion since 1776." Then he sent pictures of these buildings and the Reynolds building to 13 top architectural deans, critics and architects for comment. Only one quarreled with his judgment that Reynolds was "the best since Jefferson." Thundered Frank Lloyd Wright, who concedes excellence to few other men: "If anything less Virginian could be imagined...
...Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine" in the first of several "Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies." Rucksack Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada. This climb, which occupies about a fourth...
...jack. Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method. "It took me about 15 years," he says, "and I had some very expert help." Most valuable helper: Toronto Insurance Executive William M. Anderson, a bridge buff and mathematician...