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...that beset him on his quest. His billion-dollar journey is a veritable clearance sale of Hollywood comedy-adventure clichés. He is conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...
Although a formal announcement of the competition results has not taken place, Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, said that Harvard had received the information on its contestants...
Nathaniel S. Kuhn '78 ranked among the top six places, and Stephen W. Modzelewski '79 placed seventh out of more than 21,000 entrants in the 37th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, Gleason said...
...five finishers each year win $250, but due to a tie for fifth place, this year will produce six winners, Gleason said...
With his typical Ralph Cramden deadpan, Gleason has been known to compare golf to a chary woman, saying "you know you're not going to wind up with anything but grief, pal, but you can't resist the impulse...