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Harvard, which simply couldn't protect the inside and still harass Penn's long-distance bombers--Oliphant, Paul Little and David Lardner--had stuck with the Quakers with some gutsy mid-range shooting of its own. But in the stretch, when the Penn lead dwindled to five, the smooth swishes turned to bricks...
...Walter ("Red") Smith, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first...
PENN (83)--Paul Little 2-1-5: Angelo Reynolds 9-1-19; Brad Wynn 0-0-0; Vincent Rose 1-3-5; Fran McCaffery 0-1-1; Avery Rawllngs 2-1-5; David Lardner 5-0-10; Kenneth Hall 0-6-6; Michael Brown 4-7-15; George Noon 4-9-17. Totals...
...story wends its predictable way from hostility to love to fight to compromise, the same pattern as hundreds of movies of the era. Script-writer Peter Stone (who worked from a screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) might have attempted to elevate the drama from the cliched formula to examine the two-career relationship in the '80s. Stone, however, stuck with the original material, and the show labors with a hackneyed script, enlivened by some snappy repartee, but devoid of anything more than situation comedy level significance...
...version re-creates the story's ironies without ever resorting to voice-over narration. The setting is a sunny resort out of an oldtime picture book, but the drama is full of ominous shadows. Noel Black's unsentimental direction captures Lardner's subtle point of view, and so does the controlled acting of James Whitmore and Teresa Wright. When this couple is stung by bitterness, jealousy and regret, they never quite know what is happening: instead of stormy scenes, Whitmore and Wright offer flickers of anguish...