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These are lean times for the Harvard varsity's victory column, and yesterday's defeat marked the eighth time in the last eleven games that things haven't worked out the way coach Loyal Park would like them...
...bravely determined to relieve an isolated garrison whose force has been decimated by disease. From these elements one might well fashion an outdoor drama of stark simplicity, a clean-lined action picture of the sort no one seems to make any more. The trouble is that Writer Mac-Lean, adapting his own novel, is at heart a puzzlemaker, not a picturemaker. So all that nice scenery whizzes wastefully by outside the windows, while he concentrates his attention on the fancy private car that has been hooked on the train. It contains a lot of characters whose chief function...
...remembering all this, I feel myself curled up snugly in old mother wallabies [sic] pouch. My little claws nestle round my furry cheeks. Is mother wallaby soft and tender to her little one? He will come and lick her poor lean mangy face. When you are at your worst do you think of Mrs Lyttleton, Mrs Crum, or me. Think this out. When you wake in the night, I suppose you feel my arms round...
Most of the time, Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee is a lean, tough, profane newsman. He directed his paper's contribution to exposing Watergate, the great political scandal, the constitutional crisis that brought down Richard Nixon. But just now Ben Bradlee is starstruck. He has seen All the President's Men, a new $8.5 million film about Watergate, the Post and Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two young reporters whom Bradlee had guided and frequently defended...
Harvard has done more, however, than simply redesign its fundraising drives to appeal to a certain interest group. "When the financial times are hard you get lean, musclier, and hungrier, and you start to open your door to newer forms of giving," one fundraiser said last week...