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...level of play would not have ensured a winning season in a Mid-western high school league, but never mind that. The place to be three Saturdays ago, for football traditionalists who cared about history with a crust on it, was the Yale Bowl. Here in New Haven, Conn., Harvard and Yale footballers played, somewhat haphazardly, for the 100th time. What they played, of course, was The Game. (That Stanford and Cal call their annual collision The Big Game is, surely, an indication of desperate social insecurity.) The two Ivy League schools met first in 1875, fielding 15-man teams...
Bess Truman, who died last week at 97, went to Washington a Mid-western housewife who had lived all her life under the same roof with her mother. She did not smoke or drink or swear. She liked Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott but thought modern novels "a waste of time." After her husband succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, Bess burned a stack of Harry's love letters. "But think of history," Harry protested. "I have," she said...
...looked the part. Anyone might have the well-muscled, 6-2, 215-pound body, but Stinn has that big mid-western face, the wide, confident, permanent smile, the two enormous eye-teeth as big and white as business cards introducing themselves. And has there ever been a better football player name? It all makes it that much harder to leave the game he loves...
...parties thrown by one Mid-western home entertainer, guests are invited to the media room to watch an instant videocast of the other guests out in the garden. Many parents project Atari games like Space Invaders and Missile Command for their children on a 7-ft. screen. Super Bowl games look super that way too. Says Chicago Lawyer Charles Witz, a divorcee who has three sons at home: "I encourage them to bring their friends here, where I can build some control over their environment." Boasts Witz, who has projection TV and a library of film and music: "I have...
...village life. But what might have made effective background serves as Rimer's meat and potatoes. In place of characters, the audience gets caricatures: the gossipy old women (Suzanne Vine and Ilana Hardesty) knitting the scenes together: the gushing, pouting hot-pink bobby-soxer (Alexandra Loeb); the broad Mid-western accents of a farmer (Paul Breenhalgh); the fire-and-brimstone preacher and judge (both by Paul Erickson). There are so many roles that the caricatures all blur together, making the audience work to unsort the characters and their relationships...