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...historic old section of Charleston, that he is wearing a pair of rumpled slacks, sport shirt with tail out, and a pair of soft black moccasins that have not lately seen much spit and polish. Yet the short gray hair is still carefully combed straight back, the lean jaw still juts. Taut and fit as ever at 59, Westmoreland swims eight laps a day in good weather and is able to play golf and tennis for most of the year...
Nothing was impossible on oldtime radio. The endomorphic William Conrad (TV's Cannon) could have been the lean, rangy Marshal Dillon of Gunsmoke. Midgets walked the earth in those days-voicing the roles of children. Babies were enacted by women who specialized in gurgling noises. Fire was a sound-effects man crinkling cellophane; thunder was a copper sheet vigorously shaken; rain was birdseed falling on paper; a galloping horse was two coconut shells rhythmically handled...
...college basketball season has barely started; by the traditional calendar all the main events are yet to come. Yet the regular tournaments may seem a bit anticlimactic because of a single match-up last weekend that pitted the nation's No. 1 team, U.C.L.A., against the lean and hungry No. 2, North Carolina State. When the rough and often ragged tangle was over, U.C.L.A. was still No. 1; the Bruins won 84-66. They won with superstar Bill Walton on the bench half the game...
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 to 104 "Salomon") (London Philharmonic, Eugen Jochum conducting; Deutsche Grammophon; 6 LPs; $33). Individually, these symphonies delight unceasingly with their diversity, wit, bounteous melody and, at times, power. Collectively, they are the crown of Haydn's lifework. Though particular tastes may lean, say, to SzelFs "Surprise" or Bernstein's "London," this is by far the best integral set available of the complete dozen. At 71, Jochum eloquently states the case for interpretative orthodoxy...
When the starring five Harvard players are announced, Jenkins is announced last. He carries his lean but muscular frame smoothly onto the court where he joins his teammates...