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From this week's tidbit file comes this fact: the number-one spot on the Harvard-William & Mary series scoring list belongs to Madison "Maddy" Sayles '27, who had the game-winning touchdown in the 1925 game, which was played on Halloween...
...savoring. Each Sunday night at 8, a new baby movie, with a spooky story, feature-film production values and, often as not, a distinctive visual style. One of Spielberg's own episodes, an hourlong drama called The Mission, envelops its suspense in a visual style that suggests Rembrandt on Halloween. More important, it finds a new twist for the Spielberg credo: the miraculous power of the artistic imagination. This story of a World War II gunnery ace + who, in the author's provocative words, "literally paints himself out of a corner," is a fairy tale for the technocratic 20th century...
...kissed by a leper. First, he will angrily interrogate his roommates, demanding to know who's been writing his number in the bathrooms, at Logan Airport. Then, he will rush to the windows and look around the Yard to see if anyone if standing outside staring up at him, "Halloween" style. Only when he mentions the proposition to an upperclassman, or accuses him of making it, does he learn that he has experienced one of Harvard's most venerated and time-honored institutions--the Action...
...easier to sell a pumpkin to the American public than a lime: Rooney's book, unlike Royko's, is on The New York Times Best Seller List, number four for the week ending October 31. I can only hope that Halloween had something to do with it, but people this month, too, are preferring the trick to the treat. Royko should expect this, though, for it was Mencken who noted. "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people...
...obligingly produced a red-cheeked, smiling Santa and then forgot about it. But his Santa was chosen from 500,000 entries, and last week it appeared on a new 1984 Christmas stamp. "I feel real happy, it's an honor," says the lad who had to interrupt his Halloween to sign autographs. Success has not spoiled the young artist, but time has inevitably made him a little wiser. Asked about Santa's reaction to seeing his stamp arrive at the North Pole, LaBoccetta replied, "Why, I don't believe in Santa Claus any more...