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...addition to calculators and typewriters, many Summer School scholars will have packed frisbees, baseballs or footballs in anticipation of sunny Cambridge afternoons. But a friendly game of catch could turn into homework for sports fans taking William Littlefield's creative writing course, appropriately called "Writing About Sports...
Music on TV can obviously be enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around...
Many corporations do not really know how to make good use of bright and ambitious young newcomers. "M.B.A.s may want too much too soon, but employers in the courtship process contribute to that," says Edmund Littlefield, retired chairman of Utah International Inc., a large mining and land development company. He devised an ingenious use for them. Says he: "I was very careful not to hire more M.B.A.s than I could give an interesting career path to. Our deal was that they would come in as my administrative assistant for two years. They had no authority, but an excellent view...
...serialization. The all-encompassing theme, that life is like contract law, gives only superficial gloss and structure to a tame love story. When it's all over and done with, Osborn straddles the only issue he raises--is the Wall Street rat race worth it? Weston's friend, Littlefield, drops out only to land gloriously as a Yale Law School professor, and Weston and Newton, although they leave Bass and Marshall, still seem in awe of the grand old head of the firm, Cosmo Bass, and are fairly well indoctrinated, if somewhat rambunctious...
Osborn's real strength is not that of a novelist, but as an entertainer. In one very funny set piece. Littlefield, an associate fond of drugs and arcane legal philosophy, writes a brief for a crucial case that cites Cicero instead of legal precedents. He is fired by Lynch, a partner driven mad by the weight of his famous legal ancestors. The next morning, it is Lynch's turn to perform. In court to argue the case, he opens his mouth, but no words come out, leaving Weston to wonder if the poor wretch is going to make...