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...partner of New York's Lehman Bros., mainly because he was one of their own; Solomon was in the final running for the job. But in Williams, they find few faults. Says Donald Marron, president of Mitchell Hutchins and a longtime friend of Williams' who calls him Hal: "He is a broad-gauged person. That's good for the SEC." Donald Weeden, chairman of Weeden & Co., feels Carter made a good choice in picking someone from outside the securities field. "The job is to regulate," says Weeden, "not to be a trade association...
...sports that pushes an athlete or coach to "give it one more try?" It can't just be the money, especially for superstars living in a world of endorsements and acting careers. It's got to be something more, so much more that we cannot empathize with a Hal Greer or a Bob Gibson hobbling and wheezing their former glories into anti-climax...
...accomplished pianist. He and Wife Rosalynn once took a correspondence course in great operas (she complained that he played the records too loud). After two months in the White House, he has made three visits to Kennedy Center -for a Washington Opera Society production of Madame Butterfly, Hal Hoibrook's Mark Twain Tonight! and a New York City Ballet Company performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...SHOW, the individual tour de force, has become a major theatrical art form in recent years, and no performer has mastered the genre more completely than James Whitmore. Although Hal Holbrook displayed a keener sense of comic timing in his uproarious portrayal of Samuel Clemens in Mark Twain Tonight, and Julie Harris added a depth of psychological feeling to her Emily Dickinson that Whitmore falls just short of attaining, no one has demonstrated the versatile range and consistent excellence of Whitmore in this type of theater...
...luxurious piece of miscasting when they selected strapping sex symbol Cary Grant to star as a wimpish, homosexual composer named Cole Porter. It's encouraging, then, to find that in Bound For Glory, based on Woody Guthrie's autobiography of the same name, screenwriter Robert Getchell and director Hal Ashby have tried to satisfy the often conflicting demands of entertainment and history, and that, by and large, they have succeeded...