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...other signers of the statement are: James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts; Paul G. Bamberg Jr., associate professor of Physics; Herbert Bloch, professor of Greek and Latin; Harvey Brooks, McKay Professor of Applied Physics; George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics; Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literature; Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government; Robert J. Kiely, professor of English; Regina M. Kyle, assistant professor of English; John R. Maynard, assistant professor of English; Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology; Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government; and Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science...
...third line consists of senior Paul Daigle, junior Gordon Halliday and sophomore Francis McKay. Crocker, like Cleary, has played a fourth line on occasion...
Later in the film, Billie's lover, Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), a suave Harlem numbers-runner promises her that he will always stay with her. And he does: throughout her long concert tours, imprisonment and addiction, he remains loyal. His constancy is ironic when compared to Holliday's actual experiences. Most of his maudlin lines are delivered to a slushy background of Michel LeGrand music. This combination of irony and inappropriateness is believable only because of Williams's acting; he somehow manages to deliver his lines so that his character seems strong. This strength, however, makes Billie by contrast...
...innovative ways, McKay holds to a prosaic philosophy: "Players win; plays don't." As a recruiter, he stays close to home: of the 100 U.S.C. players currently on scholarship, only five are from out of state. McKay's pitch-like his pep talks-is low-key and persuasive: a good education, a lucrative summer job, a chance to play with a proven winner and an influential assist at landing a job after graduation. If a high school star is good enough to look forward to a pro career, McKay lets it drop that 27 former U.S.C. players-more...
...McKay is a jaunty, dapper hustler who earns upwards of $75,000 a year from his jobs as coach, athletic director, weekly TV football analyst and after-dinner speaker. Two years ago, he turned down an enticing $100,000 offer to coach the Los Angeles Rams. "I am one who believes that college football is a helluva challenge," he says, "perhaps even tougher than the pros." Friends believe that there was another reason for turning down the pro bid: he did not want to miss the opportunity of coaching his son, John K. McKay, a sophomore who is currently U.S.C...