Word: colman
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Richard W. Colman, acting coach of the Princeton football team since the announcement of head coach Charlie Caldwell's leave of absence Monday, said last night that he hopes to see Caldwell back at his post "much sooner than the early newspaper reports have suggested...
...Colman termed Caldwell's loss "a great challenge" to the Tiger squad. "Charlie's leadership has made a big difference to the team," he said, and added, "I'm only beginning to realize how big." Princeton has been rated a strong contender to take the Ivy League football championship...
...Though Colman will be in complete charge of the team, he said he would be in very close contact with Caldwell throughout the season. In requesting a leave of absence, Caldwell ruled out the possibility of his merely easing off on his coaching duties. "Football has become such an exacting science that part-time coaching, if only for a period of weeks, is extremely unwise," he said...
Already a pioneer in the stratosphere of quiz shows, Van Doren has only a fictitious precedent if he decides to press on. In a 1950 movie comedy, Champagne for Caesar, Ronald Colman played an omniscient scholar who almost wins a quiz-show sponsor's $40 million soap company. Says Sponsor Rosenhaus: "Everybody keeps asking if Van Doren is going to win the Geritol company. But we're safe." Geritol's contract with Barry & Enright limits its annual outlay for prizes to $520,000; anything over that comes out of the producers' pocket. So far, Van Doren...
...Messiah (Mon. 10:05 p.m., ABC). Handel's oratorio, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Narrator Ronald Colman...