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...Python. Five roopy young Englishmen, who methodically take the world apart each week in a series of sketches mysteriously called Monty Python 's Flying Circus, have conquered the U.S. air waves. The Pythons are getting the kind of following that a presidential candidate might envy. They are the hottest TV import; 78 public-television stations are now committed to run the show, which is one of the most popular in public TV history. Doubtless there will be many more as their new movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (see box), is released across the nation. The flick...
...first game. Harvard came up against one of the hottest pitchers in the east this season in Beattie. Beattie, who beat Penn earlier in the season, dueled Holt pitch for pitch until the fifth inning, when his teammates staked him to a two run lead that he held the rest...
Enter Connors, one of the hottest amateurs, winner of the national collegiate singles championship as a freshman at U.C.L.A. Riordan was recommended to Connors by Jimmy's grandmother, Bertha Thompson, herself a former pro, and Connors quickly signed to play professionally for him. "I told Jimmy," recalls Riordan, "if you want to be No. 2 in one of the W.C.T. groups, you'll be a nonentity. But if you want to be the best-known tennis player in the world, come with me." Connors says he felt he would get more experience on the less glamorous tour because "I wouldn...
Even playing frequently against second-raters, Connors got the experience to develop. Suddenly Riordan had the hottest property in tennis. "It's Connors who controls the destiny of the sport," says Riordan with grandeur. "Connors' enemies are at his feet...
...Hottest Ticket. At the end of last season only three plays had even made their money back. Yet this season began with hit after hit. Playwright Neil Simon credits the British invasion with supplying the spark. "I think there are better plays here because of what London sent us the first half of the season. It got us going." Sure enough, no sooner had Peter Shaffer's Equus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season...