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...these teams will share the common Ivy malady of failure to score. Dartmouth returns 17 lettermen, including second-team All-Ivy goalie Andy Krahling, who last fall recorded six shutouts and was spectacular as the Big Green upset Harvard, 2-1, in the New Hampshire rain. Coach Tom Griffith will depend heavily on other returning defensive and midfield standouts, including second-team All-Ivy fullback Tim May and halfback co-captains Steve D'Antonio and Chris Morrisson...
DIED. Anita Loos, 88, pert, witty screenwriter, playwright and novelist who became an international celebrity after the publication of her 1925 spoof of sex and materialism, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; in New York City. A former child actress, Loos sold her first film scenario to D.W. Griffith in 1912, thus beginning a four-decade Hollywood career that ranged from devising captions for silent films (a form she invented) to creating sparkling dialogue for such movies as San Francisco (1936) and The Women (1939). A diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), tirelessly convivial figure who considered boredom "a more acute pain than...
...dazzlingly clear from the first four programs, the only ones yet available for viewing. Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand, begins the series. Then, dribbled out one a month, come Bang the Drum Slowly, with Paul Newman, Albert Salmi and George Peppard; No Time for Sergeants, with Andy Griffith; and The Days of Wine and Roses, with Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. After them come The Comedian, with Mickey Rooney, and A Doll's House, with Julie Harris and Jason Robards. The last two shows in the series have not yet been chosen. The producers are still searching...
...with horror as two actors who were supposed to be dead received an early cue and rose before the camera moved away. Nothing so clumsy happens in this series, but a close observer will hear Paul Newman fluff a line in Bang the Drum and see that after Andy Griffith spills a drink on his shirt in No Time for Sergeants, he does not change it for inspection the next morning. No matter. There is an excitement in a live performance that technical perfection cannot duplicate...
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