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...Harvard touchdowns came on two third-period scores by sophomore half-back Marshall Goldberg, a long first quarter drive climaxed by fullback Tony Hick's touchdown carry from the one-yard line, and a ten yard run by Hicks in the fourth quarter...
...intelligently sidesteps the more frequently trodden paths: stories of the dispossessed who mooned in Europe with Harold Stearns, then returned to claim their inheritence with Malcolm Cowley after the Crash; tales of the flagellants who during the '30's stood in awe of greasy Communist bosses and parroted Granville Hick's latest decoctations of Stalin on Proust...
...door-to-door peddler, sweeping bored housewives into his arms while whispering the praises of a new miracle cleaner. Next he lapses into adultery with his former steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret's wriggly portrayal of a hick-town temptress requires orchestral accompaniment, their romance tends to slacken whenever the jukebox goes dead. Bus finally readjusts to civilian life by discovering that happiness is a rebuilt carburetor and his kid sister's chum Judy, sensitively played by Janet Margolin (of David and Lisa...
Many U.S. tourists think that there are still bargains to be had in little old shops in the country. But in France, at least, there is a good chance that the shop owners are city slickers who have cunningly disguised themselves as hick storekeepers in shawls or wide suspenders. London Antique Dealer George Knapp sells Americans a lot of Victorian pianos. "Preferably minus the works," he says. "Americans like to make them into bars, or put a hi-fi inside...
...production possibilities of Scopitone films make their promoter sound like Cecil B. DeMalnik. "Take Hello, Dolly! " he says, eyes moist with enthusiasm. "Maybe we'd have an actress getting down from a train in a little hick town, and, you know, she's Dolly coming back-I really don't know the rest of the words-but then there'd probably be some people meeting her, dancing along. There's just no end to the storybook film devices we can prepare." Just for a start, he might try My Funny Ballantine, Tea for Tuborg...