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...Dowd has a blood connection to professional athletics. Her brother Frank is a minor-league hockey player who served as the film's technical adviser...
Screenplay by NANCY DOWD...
...effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy and laughter. One appreciates as well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise to go for the vulgar and the sensational, then...
Died. John F. Dowd, 60, who served as Time Inc.'s chief editorial counsel for 28 years; of heart disease; in Boston. The son of a New York City policeman, Dowd was graduated from St. John's University and Harvard Law School, and worked briefly for a Wall Street firm before coming to TIME as its first in-house counsel. To protect the magazine from lawsuits charging libel or invasion of privacy, Dowd read nearly every word slated for publication, and he was welcomed by the editors as a resourceful partner in this effort. "Any lawyer...
...Dowd '78, a program vendor, said program sales "have been slow, although I'm not in a very good position." Dowd was standing about 200 feet from where a Crimson editor was distributing free guides to the game...