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Full-time heroism may be a year away for the freshmen, but head coach Frank McLaughlin is more than a little tickled by the results of his backcourt talent search. Looking for a replacement for sharpshooter Tom Mannix, McLaughlin grabbed Ferry--the number-four all-time scorer from legendary DeMatha High in Maryland--and Standley--an all-state standout from Marion, Ohio...
...climax of a television pilot called Today's FBI. Two Sundays ago the show's first appearance in its weekly time slot outdrew in ratings another durable American institution, Archie Bunker. As the age of antiheroes apparently gives way to a public hankering for heroism, FBI Director William Webster and his beleaguered colleagues are seeking to resume their legendary role. So Webster has given free use of the agency's name and seal to the ABC network and Hollywood Producer David Gerber, in exchange for approval of the stories. Said Assistant FBI Director Roger Young...
...Deer Hunter DeNiro is the Minuteman within us. He makes Americans think in the primitive terms on which our country was founded. Somehow he gets at us, and brings all our liberal thinking back to war games and heroism and the call of the wild...
Fast Track [Highways and Heroism]--It's still the same game in True Confessions, though now DeNiro is not only in complete command of himself as a Catholic careerist, but he's even distinguished, a commanding member of the Establishment...
...perhaps "legend" is a misleading word. Bernie Krieger is by no means the William Tell of the Cambridge choral set; his name inspires neither awe nor tremendous admiration. And, unlike Robin Hood, he will probably not be the subject of many great tales of heroism and warm-hearted concern. Indeed, if Bernie Krieger is a legend, he is a legend after the fashion of Pinnochio: all the stories about him are tales of misadventure, tinged ever so slightly with a reluctant love...