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Harvard's freshman baseball team, behind the six-hit pitching of Mike Cantor, yesterday defeated Quincy Junior College. Cantor struck out nine in the pitcher's duel...
...there was any tennis showdown that interested Sport Writer Philip Taubman more than this week's record $1 million duel between Jimmy Connors and Australia's John Newcombe, it was one he hoped to arrange between Connors and himself. Well before he went out to Los Angeles to interview Connors for the story, Taubman began practicing for a fast set or two with his subject. Unfortunately, Connors declined the challenge, pleading a need to rest a recently sprained ankle before his match with Newcombe. It was just as well. Taubman took up tennis at eleven...
...London. She first won wide attention as the wellborn, ill-used wife of an acid-tongued lout in Look Back in Anger, the 1956 marital psychomelodrama by her first husband, Playwright John Osborne. She went on to give other strong performances in films (Sons and Lovers) and on stage (Duel of Angels, Old Times), sometimes co-starring with her second husband, Actor-Playwright Robert Shaw...
...outcome of the crucial showdown repaid a debt which has been bothering the Pennsylvania club for almost a year now, ever since the Crimson nine swept a critical doubleheader in Philadelphia to eliminate the Quakers from the 1974 title chase. The key last year was a spectacular pitching duel which saw Harvard's Milt Holt upset Muhlstock, 2-1, but yesterday's battle saw a new ending to the script...
...Duels. Logic - or perhaps clear thinking is the better phrase - is the key to the success of both pictures. One does not want to bear down too heavily on the point lest the fun go out of the watching; but the reason both films work so well is that Lester is satirizing not merely that outdated movie form, the heavily romanticized historical spectacle, but history itself. When Lester's people fall off horses or into mud puddles, scramble about trying to have a picnic on a battlement, or try to duel on an icy river where they cannot even...