Word: dowds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frank Fay, 64, wry stage and screen comedian whose up-and-down career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series...
...Elis' 6 ft., 4 in. center, John Dowd, scored 25 points in that game, while teammates Bill Madden and Chip Oldt had 18 and 10 points respectively. Besides those three, the starting lineup will include Marquis Landrum and James Hanson, both senior forwards...
Center John Dowd, scoring with drives and jump shots, paced the Bulldogs with 25 points. Guard Bill Madden had 18, and his running make, Chip Old, contributed 10. Gary Borchard was high for the Crimson with 12, followed by captain Bob Bowditch and Denny Lynch with 11 each...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). A rerun of the 1958 TV adaptation of Harvey, with Art Carney as the harebrained Elwood P. Dowd...
...cast, with the exception of Mr. McDowall, is excellent. M'el Dowd, as Morgan Le Fey, is appropriately unusual, and Mr. Goulet makes a handsome and robust Lancelot. Julie Andrews still has that "delicate air," but in this production she is overshadowed by smashing performances from Robert Coote and Mr. Burton, Mr. Coote, who will be remembered as Pickering in My Fair Lady, is a riot as Pellinore, with his blustery Britishness and total incompetence in any given situation. Mr. Burton's dramatic talents are already widely recognized, and he enhances that reputation as a perfect Arthur in Camelot...