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...will hit the plaques at Cooperstown? Maybe one. In case you've forgotten, here is the list of memorables: catchers. Smokey Burgess and Hal Smith; first base, Dick Stuart: second base, Bill Mazeroski, shortstop, Dick Groat; third base, Don Hoak; and the fabulous, famous outfield--Bill Virdon, Bob "Hound dog" Skinner and Roberto Clemente. And on the in-famous mound staff, such immortal 20-game winners as Vernon "Deacon" Law, Bob Friend. Elroy Face and Harvey Haddix...
Tommy is more likable than he sounds. He is a Chaplinesque waif who collects other waifs: an English sheep dog named Arnold that seems to be on tranquilizers; an old ham actor who may or may not have toured with Eugene O'Neill's father in The Count of Monte Cristo; a grave-eyed, peach-complexioned girl (Kathleen Dabney) who is wrestling with a cello case full of shoplifted goodies when Tommy meets her in a Bloomingdale's ladies' room. The play is episodic, rather like an urban picaresque novel. Some of the encounters and adventures...
...even when Elkin leaves. Alex, not as self-possessed, is in a more painful position. Without channels for her intelligence, and without guidance from tradition, she relies on her better feelings, which do not help, but seize her. (When a young girl races across a street with a dog tagging behind, and the dog is killed by a truck. Alex overreacts: she immediately thinks of the possibility of the girl's death, which only frightens the youngster). Alex can finally declare that she no longer accepts Elkin on his terms--that for her, nothing, at the moment, is better than...
...newborn United Prisoners Union (national membership about 400) turned out to publicize their cause with a brunch of prison food. The "isolation loaf," made from a Department of Corrections recipe for prisoners in solitary, was pronounced revolting by the "name" guests. "A cross between cat food and dog food," said Writer Jessica Mitford. But some of the freeloaders seemed to think it wasn't bad. One fellow who went back for seconds turned out to be Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, who said he had had no food the day before. "I'd eat anything." he said, speaking with...
...Crimson offense received a severe blow Wednesday when G. Mad Dog Bolding reported to the training table with a bum knee. Bolding has averaged approximately one safety per game this fall. His place on the line was filled last night however when the Crimson signed 6'7" 285 1b. Block Buster '71-8 at the fall comp meeting. Buster was an All-American defensive tackle for Jack and Jill and Senior Scholastic...