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Much as your average musical's book is just an excuse for letting go with lots of song and dance, Dumas' bizarrely complicated plot is just an excuse for action and dueling and general running about. Although the king himself, at the urging of the insidious Richelieu, has outlawed the duel, his gallant musketeers still try to work through worn-out codes of loyalty and honor, something that the Cardinal's guards don't share. As a result, every duel devolves into chaos and confusion. And also a good deal of fun. Hamlin's actors seem to have jumped into...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Theatre The Three Musketeers at the Loeb | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

...Baxter), a travel agent. Tindle has been having a surreptitious affair with Wyke's wife. After a swift courtesy drink has been poured, Wyke makes Tindle blink by saying, "I understand you want to marry my wife." "Well, yes," gulps Tindle, "with your permission, of course," and a duel to the death begins between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

COMIC BOOKS were written for escapists. You had to be willing to go more than half-way to sweat through Superman's struggle with Dr. Galiogne stretched over four issues, or The Masked Marvel's duel to the death with The Incredible Hydro-Man. But once you were there, they never let you down and the heroes of these super-worlds were soon embedded in America's collective imagery...

Author: By Robert Crosby, | Title: Uncle Sam's Kids Hee-Hee, Bogeyman, and Honky | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

Harvard's Tom Spengler outran Cornell's Jon Anderson in a great cross country duel Saturday at Franklin Park, but some of the Big Red's less outstanding harriers were better than expected, and Cornell earned...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Cornell Earns Tie With Harriers Despite Strong Race by Spengler | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

Anderson is a much bigger threat this fall after an ambitious summer training program out West. He and Spengler may stage a great personal duel...

Author: By B. B., | Title: Harvard Favored In Cornell Race | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

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