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...Spencer I. Davidson...
EDWARD BOREIN: COWBOY ARTIST by Harold G. Davidson. 189 pages. Doubleday. $19.95. Borein (1872-1945) never achieved the celebrity of such Western artists as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. He drifted from cowpunching along the Pacific Coast into a successful career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work...
...role of the vainglorious Captain Boyle, Jack Lemmon as his bar "butty" Joxer, and Maureen Stapleton as his earth mother wife Juno. How did this particular production come about? Matthau and Lemmon had wanted to do the play for some tune, preferably with Stapleton. They approached Gordon Davidson, the energetic artistic director of the Mark Taper, and gave him a commitment for a five-week limited run, which was sold out by opening night...
...also held a special draft for Wheel players-16 members of the 37-man squad were picked up-and promised to honor all other contracts signed by now defunct teams. "We feel while we have had our problems, we have not ignored them," says League Founder and Commissioner Gary Davidson. "I feel very positively we have turned the corner...
...Despite Davidson's optimism, an embarrassing question remains: What happened to a league that kicked off four months ago with solid attendance figures, some exciting play, and promised to cause a mass defection of N.F.L. superstars next year? The answer: bungling management and stiff competition from the N.F.L. once it started regular-season play in September...