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Died. Susan Glaspell, 66, little-theater pioneer, novelist, and Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Alison's House, 1930); of virus pneumonia; in Provincetown, Mass. She and first husband George Cram ("Jig") Cook led the experimentalists' rebellion against Broadway commercialism at their ramshackle Wharf Theater in Provincetown, gave Eugene O'Neill's first plays their first performances, helped found Manhattan's famed Provincetown Players in 1916, and wet-nursed the little-theater movement...
After this astonishing upset, Barney slouched toward the pyramid in a dirty sweat suit. Not until he stepped down from the perch did the old Penn State star come to life. Then he danced a jig and sang: "Piccadilly Alley, here I come . . . La, la, la, la ... Come on, Dillard, let's take a shower. We're going to London...
...Belfast, a 110-lb. Irishman named Rinty Monaghan, who trains on goats' milk, became the world's flyweight boxing king. He creamed Jackie Paterson, a Scotsman, in the seventh round and Paterson sagged to the floor. As he was being counted out, Rinty did an enthusiastic jig in his corner, then led the crowd in singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The celebration continued at Rinty's home until a wellwisher, while demonstrating "how I would have handled Paterson," accidentally knocked the new champion cold...
...Kramer's serve, Big Jake put so much angle and spin on the ball that his opponent landed up in the bleachers trying to get his racket on it. If Riggs played in close, Big Jake blasted it straight down the middle. Usually, Kramer won his service in jig time, and then began a long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first...
...field and the down-to-earth mechanisms within it typifies his outlook. For nation-forming inherently requires planning, he insists with a sideswipe at "the fluffy talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...