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...magazines carry a column of intimate advice written by a man. Glamour features a columnist anonymously known as Jake, a job that has changed hands many times and is now held down by a smooth-tongued advertising man in his early 30s. Mademoiselle runs the team of David Newman, a freelance writer, and Robert Benton, an artist, who recently warned readers: "You must remember men are attracted to Superwomen, but they fall in love with Women-Women." Seventeen's Jimmy Wescott ("In the fashion world, mules are something a girl wears and fellows act like") is billed...
...lone-wolf liberal who was unacceptable to most national party leaders. Casting desperately around for someone else, they were drawn to the able, attractive Governor of Illinois. Stevenson was genuinely reluctant; the night before the national convention in Chicago, he sat up until 2 a.m. in Cook County Boss Jake Arvey's kitchen, suggesting alternative names and insisting that he wanted only to run for re-election as Governor...
...only change will come in the combina- tion race, which is made up of members of the second freshman and third varsity boats, and is raced only on this occasion. The Harvard boating will be: bow, Tony Parker; two, Ed Poliakoff; three, Bill Wolbach; four, Andy Larkin; five, Jake Fiechter; six, Geoff Lister; seven, Tom Scarvie; stroke, Clint Allen; and cox, Quentin Sullivan...
...Barber") Swettham and Annie Buxton. The Good Guys came right back on a single and a walk driven in by a long double from the redoubtable stick of Tiger Dan Donovan. Then all three pitchers (the CRIMSON unveiled its deadly platoon system, alternating between southpaw Rick Hertzberg and northpaw Jake Brackman) settled down to business...
...film is studded with real moments. Scenarios are deceitful, improvization honest. Concomitantly, improvization--the actors go through a scene line for line, then throw away their scripts and play the situation out of their heads--is fumbly, halting, erratic. Nobody Waved Goodbye has less gloss than Jake Wirth's floor. It's a sort of artistic Candid Camera, a really terrific home movie...