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Before it became a television series, M*A*S*H had been a mildly successful novel (1968) by Richard Hooker and a surprise hit movie (1970) directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. Most of the TV show's major characters were sketched in by the movie, but the tone was '50s frat house, and the emphasis was on the safety-valve sexual high jinks that the heroes perpetrated on some of their uptight colleagues. These droll humiliations would have been too raunchy for TV and too alienating for audiences in search of a weekly...
...Lardner 8-13 0-0 16, Little 3-7 6-6 12, Brown 5-8 0-0 10, Oliphant 2-7 0-0 4, May 0-0 0-0 0, Racine 4-10 5-5 13, Rawlings 7-10 4-7 18, Maloney 0-0 0-0 0, Wott 1-2 0-1 2, Totals...
...Lardner 7-11 3-4 17, Brown 4 10 1.29, Noon 7-12 1-2 15, Racine 4-9 2-3 10, Ohphant 5-8, 0-2 10, Arnole 4-7 0-0 8, Rawinge 0-0 0-0 0, Wolf 0-1 0-0 0, Maioney 0-0 0-0 0, Little 0-0 4-4 4, Mascion 0-0 0-0 0, Borno 0-0 0-0 0, May 0-1 0-0 Totais...
Forwards David Lardner and Michael Brown demonstrated much of the Quaker talent Lardner's 11 second half points came on perimeter jumpers that kept the Crimson at a distance, and Brown's 18 rebounds on the night brought Penn control of the boards...
...Louis, Knute Rockne, Grantland Rice and the incomparable saloonkeeper Toots Shor-had been written up on the obituary page. Smith's own goodbyes, collected in To Absent Friends, are enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every one with a feeling for written English handled with respect and taste and grace, a tragic loss to the world of laughter...