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...never been there-used to think he knew Brooklyn troo and troo. It was Green-pernt and Bensonhoist, Coney and Canarsie, the land of kosher pizza and the foot-long frankfurter, of pickles with everything and every third Schaefer's on the house. It was Leo The Lip Durocher bawling out the umpires at Ebbets Field, the impassioned rooters alternately toasting Dem Bums with Cokes and bombarding them with the empty bottles...
Daddy had warned her about cats like that. Clyde's daughter, Harriet Beatty, 32, was just opening her lion-taming act at the Hamid-Morton Police Circus in Kansas City, Mo., when Leo, a surly 240-lb. two-year-old, rushed her, chomped down on her right arm and dragged her around until she loosened his grip by firing six blank pistol shots in his face. After the lacerations were patched up, Harriet still displayed that old family spirit by insisting: "Lion training is fascinating...
When you see Bobby Leo run 50 Yards for a touchdown, or Keith Sedcek sink a 30-foot jump shot, or Jim McCandlish pitch a two-hitter, do you have difficulty suppressing Walter Mittyish dreams of being a sportswriter? If so, you're not alone...
...shifting the scene from a godforsaken island to an alpine retreat, they are able to engineer a couple of spectacular deaths among the crags, but the mood of boxed-in menace is efficiently destroyed. Held to a laggard pace, such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey the resigned air of specialists summoned too late to be really useful. Mod sex appeal is dragged in by Shirley Eaton, fisticuffs by Hugh O'Brian. And, unlikely as it seems, there is Teen Idol Fabian, quaffing a lethal dose of poison immediately after singing a song...
...entourage was organized by Bobby Leo '67, a Harvard halfback from Everett. Leo was recruited by A. David Mazzone '50, a personal friend, who is O'Donnell's campaign manager...