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Trumbo is going to write the last graf...
...rest is just listings. Trumbo wrote the beginning graf, I wrote the sorta shallow parody of what usually appears in this space under some pseudonym or other of mine, Diana did the graphics, Tony is the magazine editor, Judy is the Crimson Arts editor, Peggy is the assistant magazine editor, and God's in his heaven, etc. Special thanks to Jacques Costeau and the entire crew of the Calypso except for Hairy Pierre...
Though the article was discursive and heavy with detail, many editors happily rushed the story to press. After all, it was a dramatic tale whipped out on deadline. The Philadelphia Inquirer, however, wired Murphy its reservations: "Request urgent rewrite of first-person kidnap account. Suggest lead is in twelfth graf. Suggest perhaps you are too close to story. Suggest step back, take another look. Can you comply?" Constitution Associate Editor Hal Gulliver, who received the message in Murphy's absence, did not know whether to laugh or cry. So he replied: "In the unhappy event that one of your...
Died. Herbert Graf, 69, scholarly, soft-spoken stage director of New York's Metropolitan Opera (1936-60), whose consistently successful productions in the U.S. and Europe made him one of the opera world's most sought-after regisseurs; of cancer; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...back onto the field. But Sophomore Anthony Davis, for one, got the message. Midway in the third quarter, the tiny (5 ft. 9 in.) tailback splashed around left end and went 48 yds. for a touchdown. Minutes later, following the solid blocking of Center Dave Brown and Guard Allan Graf, Davis splattered for 55 yds. and another score. The Trojan defense, anchored by Linebacker Richard Wood and Cornerback Charles Hinton, who intercepted two Oregon passes, stiffened as requested and U.S.C. went on to win 18-0. It was the eighth victory in a row for U.S.C., the nation...