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...Miss Smith and George Abbott is that the authors expanded and burlesqued the Cissy part, making a vehicle for Shirley Booth and now Miss Blondell, while they left the Nolens as poignant as before. This creates a jarring contrast; and since the music and choreography fit in with the lighter parts of the production, the Nolen scenes lie alone and disjointed...
...Bears pass extensively from their deceptive T-formation, with Coach Utz' sons Jack and Jim, his first and second-string quarterbacks, doing the bulk of the pitching. Jack, the elder and lighter (140 pounds), has thrown four touchdown passes in the first two games of the season...
French said: "My lawyer informed me that there is no precedent for a suspended sentence. The chances of one are nil... there is no parole of any sentence lighter than one year and this will not in all likelihood be light...
This varied composition is explained by assuming that the planet they came from was molten inside. The heavy metal in it had sunk toward the center. The lighter stony stuff had risen toward the surface. In between was a zone containing both metal and stone. So when the planet blew up, its fragments might be either metal or stone or a mixture of both...
...Lampoon has not, however, completely abandoned the lighter side of art. Its short poems, particularly Lines in Favor of Deposed Kings by John Updike, are amusing rather than laugh-provoking. Regrettably, however, Updike has also tried some sketches on College life in the style of Frederick Osborne and Abner Dean, portraying oversized deans and headless freshmen. Too obviously derivative, these are neither original nor entertaining. And Updike could also use some fresh cartoon ideas...