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...Died. Lew Parker, 64, comedian who most recently played Mario Thomas' father on her TV series That Girl; of cancer; in Manhattan. A durable comic of the gag-a-minute school, Parker graduated from vaudeville to radio, Broadway musicals and then to television. During the '50s he co-starred with Comedienne Frances Langford in the TV series The Bickersonsons...
...name is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, also known by his former name, Lew Alcindor, and he had taken time off from his basketball career to study Arabic at Harvard...
...falls in -and vice versa. The incumbent, the Speaker of the House and a gaggle of dignitaries are touring Frankfurt when disaster rains down on their good gray heads. "That ceiling was 500 years old," the German ambassador defensively informs a shocked Cabinet back in Washington. The Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort...
Rosewall has been playing the same sort of stylish tennis since the '50s, when he and another Australian teenager, Lew Hoad, were beating U.S. Davis Cup teams manned by Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert. It has helped him win major titles over an incredible span: the U.S. championship in 1956 and again in 1970; the French championship in 1953 and 1968; the Australian championship four times, the first in 1953 and the most recent just this year...
...carno question invites endless literary lawyering. Is it not possible, for instance, to write excitingly about violence without being a carnographer? Yes, of course; James Jones' fine combat novel The Thin Red Line is not carno, nor is James Dickey's Deliverance, nor Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer stories. Mickey Spillane's 1, the Jury is carno. No, it is not possible to draw a line, and yes, David Morrell's First Blood is unmistakably carno, well over the line that can't be drawn...