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Schiller's play and Donizetti's opera (which followed Schiller) were born of an age when Mary was a stock romantic heroine. In the Donizetti particularly, the role makes a stunning vehicle for opera's finest singing actress, Beverly Sills. The newer playwrights and scriptwriters are less certain what to do with the character of Mary. They cannot make up their minds whether she is good, bad or half-and-half, and their ambiguity perplexes and defeats the actresses who find themselves in the role. Mary is as hard for modern writers to understand as Elizabeth...
Which is not to underestimate another Laker superstar, Jerry West. Shrewd playmaker, quick-handed defender and usually sharp shooter, West is probably the best guard ever to play basketball. His fellow guard, completing what may be the finest pairing ever, is Gail Goodrich, who is barely over 6 ft. tall but long on shotmaking skill. As one starting forward, the Lakers have Harold ("Happy") Hairston, a rugged rebounder who complements Wilt in controlling the backboards. The other is Second-Year Man Jim McMillian (rhymes with villain), who is deadly from the corner and scored a career high of 42 points...
Once, it was essentially an emotional head-on clash between Harvard and Pennsylvania. Two superlative crews, two radically different rowing philosophies. Now, with the re-emergence of Navy as a powerful challenger, it has become a three-way dogfight among the East's finest boats...
...balmy Saturday night on Penn's Frat Row. The "Techniques" were doin' the do at the TKE House while over at the FIJI's, a bus was depositing 40 of Bucks County's finest high school sweeties for a patented "unforgetable night." Yes, things were hot in Philadelphia around 9 p.m. Saturday, but the hottest of the hot was the scene at Kappa...
Thomas had one of his finest games for the Crimson, driving in three runs and contributing the fielding gem of the afternoon by stabbing a liner between third and shortstop. McGugan provided the leading plate performance, going three for three and scoring each time he reached base. His single in the fourth also drove in Tim Bilodeau with what proved to be the winning...