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...recent interviews, George C. Scott announced that he has given up acting. (Anyone who caught his performances in The Day of the Dolphin and Bank Shot would know that he must have reached his decision long before the official announcement.) Scott wants now. he says, to devote himself to directing. His most noticeable lunges along that line thus far have been a bombastic television version of The Andersonville Trial and a hysterical film on germ warfare called Rage...
...Jack celebrated his 60th birthday by swimming 1½ miles across San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf-handcuffed, his feet chained together, and towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. After 80 minutes of diving through the bay like a clumsy dolphin, Jack landed at the Wharf, blue with cold. Rushed to a nearby sauna for defrosting, he emerged to the cheers of fans and promptly fell to the ground, only to do ten brisk pushups. Then, his teeth still chattering, he proclaimed: "Anything is possible with the human body...
...looks like the WFL has dangerous tendencies to start the Rozelle way. After the Dolphin desertion followed a deluge of consistent talent--Calvin Hill, Ken Stabler, Ted Kwalik, and Nick Buoniconti. The only flaw with all the money spent to get these guys was the possibility that it was finite. And thus a ray of hope for connoisseurs of the brilliant balmy vagaries of the busted play. Hopefully, the Lucre/Lunatic law would take effect: an imbalance of money would leave room for a whole new generation of eccentrics...
Robert T. S. Lowell '39, Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, Monday won the 1974 Putlitzer Prize for Poetry for his book of verse "The Dolphin...
...Dolphin" was published simultaneously with "History" and "For Lizzie and Harriet...