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...This Issue: John N. Rosenthal '87 Night Editors: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Joseph F Kahn '87 Stacie A. Lipp '89 Matthew A. Saal '87 Nina E. Sonenberg '88 City State Editor: Joseph Menn '87 Editorial Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Photo Editor: A. Porter Gifford '86 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse...
...constantly describes the telecast as something that transcends sport, a program which had to appeal to more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still has a job is because of his close personal friendship with the ABC News president...
...controversial personality made Monday Night Football more interesting than other sports telecasts is unchallengable. There is no doubt that people take more notice when they are infuriated, and Cosell's inanities on Monday Night Football did a lot of infuriating. But by directing backhanded slaps at everybody from Gifford and Meredith to CBS color commentator and football God John Madden, Cosell undermines his own credibility. He is not, as he would have it, the only redeeming person in the entire sports world. And while his Sportsbeat show is critically acclaimed, it is not popularly accepted. Cosell has failed to realize...
...real terror of the Everglades is Australia's Melaleuca quinquenervia, also known as cajeput, punk tree and paperbark tree. A close cousin of the eucalyptus, with shaggy bark and pale yellow flowers, it was introduced to Florida in 1906 by Forester John Gifford of the Department of Agriculture, who thought it might attract commercial woodcutters. Unfortunately, its / hardwood interior, hidden by a thick soft bark, is runny with water and difficult to saw. Moreover, the Melaleuca sucks up three times as much water as other swamp trees, thus drying out the land, and its leaves are filled with eucalyptol...
...voices of Monday Night Football, they are already an odd couple, so why shouldn't Frank Gifford and Don Meredith make it official? To help raise money for the Festival Theater in Santa Fe, Dandy Don and the Giffer opened there last week in Neil Simon's comedy The Odd Couple. Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, plays Oscar Madison, the slob's slob, complete with a cigar and a New York Mets baseball cap. ("I hate the Yankees," he explains.) Gifford, the ex-New York Giants running back, is Felix Unger, the neat freak. Although Meredith did a show...