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Life's 21-in. dwarf, TV, is parodied in the second playlet, and what might be merely predictable is so superbly done that it provides porcupine-quilled social comment. The third playlet is simple and startling. A huge papier-mache Mother Hubbard doll intones a litany of all the beauties of the motel room that she owns, conjuring up memories of the garish comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow...
...Burton, Colgate's 160-pound quarterback sensation, and teammate Mary Hubbard, a 220-pound halfback, give the Red Raiders sufficient outside and inside running to drive the Tigers into frustration. In the past three years, Princeton has defeated Colgate by 40-0, 9-0, and 27-0, but today is the Tigers' day to be losers. Colgate should...
Colgate quarterback Ron Burton and halfback Marva Hubbard carried the ball on all but two plays gainst Cornell. The 160-pound Burton, unbelievably, carried the ball himself on all but three occasions in the second half...
HERBIE HANCOCK, MAIDEN VOYAGE (Blue Note). Hancock is-an inventive young (26) modernist best known for his work with Miles Davis. Here he sets out to fathom the mysteries of the sea. His crew of Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams, drums, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, and George Coleman, tenor sax, pull together perfectly to express a variety of moods-from the quiet swirling sound of Little One to the growling agitation of Eye of the Hurricane. Survival of the Fittest features a Hancock solo that pits one hand against the other in a sort of riptide effect...
Next door in the teeming Negro wards of the South Side's 1st District, another organization antique, Negro Congressman William L. ("The Man") Dawson, 80, seeking a 13th term, was opposed by Negro Social Worker Fred Hubbard, 37. Though Dawson was the favorite, Hubbard was expected to make a strong showing, partly out of sympathy because he was shot in the shoulder during the campaign by an unknown sniper. He was hurt politically even worse by Dawson, who was reelected...