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Crusader coach George Blaney will floor a roof-scraping squad, with seven footer John "Big Boo" Budris 6 ft. 9 in. high-post man Marty Halsey, and 6 ft. 5 in., three-year veteran Malcolm Moulton...
...American Boy is a funny, wily, eccentric and inventive movie about dead ends and dubious dreams, opportunities lost and responsibilities evaded. Director-Writer Charles Eastman (best known previously as the author of the screenplay for Little Fans and Big Halsey) evokes, in the character of Vic, the kind of wary protagonist whose abdication of personal responsibility made anti-heroes out of Dean and Brando, Fonda and Hopper. The film builds to a crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees...
...cruel jokes, eventually all but sanctified as U.N. ambassador, is more familiar. This Eleanor's range of activity was extraordinary, her energy atomic. In the Depression she fought for every project to create jobs, feed children, advance blacks. During World War II her tours of hospitals exhausted Admiral Halsey and left the redoutable Clemmie Churchill collapsed on a staircase. Eleanor went...
...another 28 got in with low scores of 300 to 500. Hampshire invites applicants to submit "anything that can tell us something about yourself." Last year it received hundreds of odd ities ranging from homemade rugs to loaves of bread. The winners were chosen, says Admissions Director Van Halsey, partly for such personal qualities as "a tolerance for ambiguity, a lot of self-confidence, and some self-direction...
...been 65 such orders so far, received variously and eagerly at sea and ashore as "Zulu-grams" or "Zumie-grams" or just "Zoomies." In a service more encrusted with class protocol than most, they have especially endeared Zumwalt to enlisted men. Zumwalt, declares a chief on the destroyer U.S.S. Halsey, is "the first C.N.O. who has ever rattled this bird cage down to the level where I can feel...