Word: fran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture of a beautiful woman identifies the magazine as the latest Paris Vogue. Inside, things are far from standard. In an effort to increase circulation and dress up its Christmas issue, Paris Vogue has twice chosen a guest editor for its year-end edition. Last year she was Françoise Sagan, who limited her tasks to writing only a couple of pages. This year the choice was Actress Jeanne Moreau, who does nothing halfheartedly...
Moreau hates the cold, so she decided to do a ski-fashion layout as a photographic comic book, shot in a studio. She commissioned Playwright Françoise Dorin to write the scenario and got Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and Actress Nathalie Delon (Alain's ex) to ham it up while modeling the necessary ski clothes. To caption 21 displays of Christmas-gift ideas, Moreau wrote poetry, which is reproduced in her own handwriting and reveals a whimsical side of the serious seductress...
...teammates"-all highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite likely to peg him No. 1 in the draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass. He has the height to see over mountainous linemen and the speed (10.2 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) to turn the ends for long gainers. Beyond that, he possesses that...
...Fran Tarkenton was apoplectic. Sportswriter Dick Schaap had given the New York Giants' quarterback a slim volume to pass the time on the New York-Boston jet. Tarkenton flipped the first few pages and wept through the last three chapters. Now, the night before the big game, the whole damn team was reading the thing with identical results. "Listen!" he telephoned Schaap. "This book is destroying the Giants just when we're supposed to be psyched up for the Patriots...
...second half, when Cosell, flu-ridden and well fortified against chill, threw up on Dandy Don's black cowboy boots and had to leave the frigid press box. There was no question that a quarterback was at the mike late in the second half, when quarterbacks Fran Tarkenton of the Giants and Norm Snead of the Eagles punched over for touchdowns. "When you're in trouble, go to your power runners," Meredith gleefully cried...