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...Mauch Manager of the Year. But Mauch and General Manager John Quinn refused to rest on those laurels. They were too busy rebuilding the team's dilapidated farm system and hunting for promising young players. "The secret of a good trade," Mauch says, "is not to try to fool anybody. They know the score as well as you do." Sometimes even better. Occasionally, a deal went sour: Pitcher Curt Simmons got his unconditional release in 1960, has beaten the Phillies 13 times since...
...epitaph drear: "A fool lies here...
...something that's worthwhile, that contributes, however little, to your country, and if you can have some fun while you're doing it-why, only a fool would choose to play it safe...
...friends. Rather than give themselves over to any academic system, they deny all systems violently. They only begin a paper weeks after it is due, boasting about their devilry or bemoaning their assured doom. They dip into books just before an exam and fish out some facts to fool the grader. They pick courses for their easiness, seeking out "guts" or indepent study or special unknown seminars. During their rare appearances at a lecture, they generally don't bother to take notes...
Close on Seltzer's acting heels is Mark Bramhall, Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold-hearted bastard with wonderful confidence and relish. Standing near Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding...