Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After every goal I'd say to myself, 'you can only do your own job, there's not much you can do to help our defense today,' " M. I. T. lacrosse goalie Jerry Horton whispered last night. Horton had contracted laryngitis after 25 Harvard goals had set all-time Crimson single-game records, for most goals and most points scored...
...Crimson attack levelled a whopping 79 shots at the hapless Horton. "I kind of lost track," Horton said. "They'd just weed their way through our mid-field and score. I didn't think they were shooting that well. They could have scored a lot more...
...Horton saved 19 shots: those he didn't added up to two more than the previous Crimson mark, set last year against the Engineers. The 43 points established a new standard by three...
...such is Cold Turkey, an extended sitcom loaded with the kind of jokes that induce canned laughter. Like the Mock Turtle, Writer-Director Norman Lear attempts an arithmetic composed of Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. A tobacco tycoon (the late Edward Everett Horton) offers $25 million to any American city whose inhabitants can quit smoking for 30 days, on the plausible theory that it cannot be done. But he reckons without the Rev. Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke). Led by the uptight, upright preacher, Eagle Rock, Iowa, turns abolitionist. In the process, it writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar...
Died. Edward Everett Horton, 84, persimmon-faced comedian who starred on stage, screen, radio and TV for more than 60 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. With an apologetic stoop, a wry grin and timely double- (sometimes triple) take, Horton made his comic way through almost 3,000 stage revivals of Springtime for Henry and more than 100 movies, including several with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat, Shall We Dance?). Why so often the supporting roles? Said Horton: "I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid...