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...Federal Reserve chairman in an attempt to influence him. Carter needs Burns' help if he is to meet his goal of balancing the budget by 1981. Carter also appreciates Burns' ties with businessmen. Says one veteran Fed watcher, William LeFevre, senior analyst of Wall Street's Granger & Co. brokerage house: "Burns is Carter's best avenue into the banking fraternity, where Carter would clearly love to be accepted...
Whatever the reason for the TV version's popularity, it did not necessarily have much to do with artistic merit. Leading TV critics had, at best, serious reservations about the series, and many panned it outright. The Chicago Sun-Times' William Granger, complaining of "puerile" writing and "caricatures," described Roots as "so transparently bad at times that I was filled with embarrassment." TIME'S own critic, Richard Schickel, labeled the TV production as "Mandingo for middlebrows." He wrote that Roots offered "almost no new insights, factual or emotional," about slavery; instead, there was "a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions...
...KICKOFF RETURNS Player No. Yds. Avg. Larry Schember 7 176 25.1 Matt Granger 2 39 19.5 Tom Lincoln 2 19 9.5 Ralph Polillio...
...malicious, it's visually stunning, and in none of Hitchcock's American films does he etch his characters with such trenchant economy. Best scene: Robert Walker obsessively watches a tennis game with murder on his mind. Everyone else's eyes follow the ball; Walker's follow Farley Granger. (This scene was shot, by the way, on location in the fashionable suburn of South Orange, New Jersey...
Harvard's offense, which had stalled for much of the first half, used the big break to get untracked. Fullback Matt Granger, who along with Ralph Polillio and Joel Boone were the Crimson workhorses on the ground, ripped off a 19-yard gallop...