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...Hustler. 1961. Incomparable. Robert Rossen's peerless study of backroom pool-hall life features surpassing performances by Paul Newman as Fast Eddy Felson, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, and George C. Scott and Piper Laurie as the sharks' supporters...
...while The Crimson won't own the most modern or most expensive equipment available, it will be a far different newspaper than the one which Hollis Gleason '08, the oldest Crimson editor to attend the Centennial celebration, remembers from...
Minnesotans are proud of that. After the 1967 riots, in the intelligently direct style of most Minnesota politics, businessmen, civil rights leaders and educators met to organize the first Urban Coalition chapter in the country. Today blacks are often among the state's more enthusiastic boosters. Says Gleason Glover, executive director of the Minneapolis Urban League: "For a black, Minneapolis is one of the truly outstanding cities in the U.S. to live in. The problems here?housing, education, discrimination, unemployment?are manageable ... There just isn't the real, deep-seated hatred here that blacks often encounter in other cities...
...Your otherwise excellent cover story on Coach Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins [Dec. 11] was marred by an egregious misrepresentation of our fair city of Miami. While your conjectures about the way things are on Collins Avenue, Jackie Gleason Drive, Arthur Godfrey Road and at Zorita's may well be true of the city of Miami Beach, they are in no way representative of the city of Miami, home of the Dolphins...
...Liza Minnelli-a high-rolling town where lacquered young ladies comb the bars along Collins Avenue through the long, hot winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin's-egg blue sports jacket and ocher slacks...