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Died. Walter Lang, 73, motion-picture director for 36 years; of liver failure following surgery; in Palm Springs, Calif. Hollywood was making silent movies when Lang arrived in 1925, but he made the jump into talkies, Technicolor and wide screens with ease. He directed nearly 40 films including Cheaper by the Dozen, Call Me Madam, Can Can and The King...
Princeton, ninth in the nation in total offense before Saturday, came out fumbling in the first quarter. The Tigers lost the ball on fumbles their first three possessions and Princeton's Richard Lang squibbed a five-yard punt the fourth time the Tigers got the ball...
...Lang's punt from the Princeton ten-yard line was partially blocked by Crimson defensive end Mike McHugh. The ball was rolling dead at the Tiger 33, when Harvard's Mike Murr tried to scoop it up and gain a few more yards. Murr never got control of the ball, and Princeton recovered...
...JULIUS H. LANG...
...hope all of this isn't mawkish, but the point is simply that institutional negligence (under which I would classify the callous transgressions of promoters like Lang or Melvin Belli) does not make good copy or flashy movies. When thirty-eight miners suffocate in a mineshaft which doesn't even meet the government's lax specifications, that "tragedy" is accorded the treatment the press gives to earthquakes and other natural disasters, but New York filmmakers aren't about to fly down to Kentucky or wherever and compose a film around it. Instead it's the front page one day, then...