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Nothing, in short, about her prior career hinted that she could be as deft and daring as Harold Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. Along with the other foremost icon of the '50s Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason, Ball was a larger-than-life talent uniquely suited to the small screen. Her signature series, I Love Lucy, and its successors endured more than two decades in prime time, from 1951 to 1974, one of the few immutables in a sea of social change. Lucy, seen in more than...
...Wright scandal. Hark back to John Connally's tangled legal history, and recall the get-rich-on-the-public- payroll legacy of Lyndon Johnson. On the national stage, those Texans who have avoided this moral indictment seem to be those who were born rich, like George Bush or Senator Lloyd Bentsen...
Officially there were only two defendants in the five-week federal trial in Chicago. Norby Walters, 58, and Lloyd Bloom, 29, New York City-based agents for professional athletes, were charged with reaching into college ranks and illegally plying hot prospects with cash, cars and other perks for signing premature, postdated contracts. But the agents' lawyers maneuvered strenuously to shift the indictment's focus. Their target: the system of big-time college athletics that, with box-office and TV profits at stake, often looks the other way when stars get improper favors and that condones specious academic regimens to maintain...
...returning Crimson Long Islanders didn't get much. David Kramer, from Lloyd Harbor, got a goal. Chris Garvey, from Dix Hills, got an assist. Manhasset native Tim Reilly got a separated shoulder...
Harvard theater has a way of bringing out the foolishness in us all. In the Lowell Society's twin productions of The Great Catherine and Tom Thumb the Great, silliness is the name of the game. Queens wear metallic platform shoes, cats purr to the tunes of Andrew Lloyd Weber and footnotes come to life...