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...half ended with the score knotted at one,despite some late attacks by the Big Green.Williams came in clutch on the defensive end as heconsistently helped to thwart the Big Greenattacks. The kangaroo-like Williams controlled theairways as he soared over numerous Dartmouthforwards to head crosses out of danger...
DIED. SHARI LEWIS, 65, puppeteer who animated both her inquisitive sidekick Lamb Chop and the quest for quality children's programming; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Lewis and Lamb Chop, a woolly sock with exaggerated eyelashes, first appeared on morning television in 1957 on The Captain Kangaroo Show. Lewis' talent for ventriloquism and aptitude for engaging children without condescension led to four different series of her own. A talented musician, conductor and dancer, Lewis wrote 60 children's books and won 12 Emmys during her 40-year career...
...woman with a demure sock named Lamb Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this time to PBS, and they plopped their own children down to watch...
...added bonus, the Captain Kangaroo crew knew Frank...
After leaving CBS he went briefly to "Captain Kangaroo," and then helped start Channel 13, the flagship public television station in New York...