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Sing Out & Sonar. By his own description, he was always the class cutup and showoff. Raised in suburban Boston, where his father ran a chain of movie theaters, he was forever going to school with phony bandages on his head, explaining that his mother had hit him with a rolling pin or, after the 1938 hurricane, that a falling oak had beaned him. Something had to be done, or so it seemed, and eventually Morse was sent off to the lower school of the Christian Scientist Principia College in Illinois. Peccadilloes there were punished as sins. When Bobby stole...
...dugout cutup, Lary was nicknamed "Taters" by Tiger teammates because he once wrote "taters" on a dining-car order blank, is a guitar-strumming hillbilly singer on an Alabama radio station in the off season. But Lary is not an ambitionless rube. He hopes to quit with his pension after three more years to develop a 40-acre Alabama water recreation area called Frank Lary Lake. ''Ten years in baseball would be enough." he says. "I should spend more time with my family. I'm not home enough to raise my kids...
Almost before he became acclimated, Johns had his first cutup to cut out: Sigma Nu fraternity brawlers drunkenly smashed furniture during a lost weekend at the Roney Plaza Hotel. He put the fraternity on probation for a year. Other Johns edicts on the way may revolutionize life at Miami even further: classes will run until 6 p.m., eliminating afternoon ocean dips; telephones in girls' dorms will be disconnected at 10:30 p.m.; plans for all social functions will be subject to stiff prior approval; driving across the sprawling campus between classes will be stopped and the use of cars...
...century French farce is broad more often than bright, and Cyril Ritchard's direction is often as agitated as it is agile. The cast works hard for its laughs, but it does get them. Tammy Grimes chirps and wiggles saucily, although she suggests a visiting British cutup rather than a Parisian cocotte. Cecil Beaton's settings are like a brilliant tropical aquarium with a lavish flora of swirling, colorful gowns and hats...
...colt Nadir as he got up the final $1,000 of the $2,385 entry fee that gave him the privilege of watching Nadir horse around in the $277,150 Garden State Stakes, richest race in the world. To make the picture complete, Nadir had something of a cutup in the saddle too: rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front of R. D. Prewitt's Terra Firma, and Willie set a new record...