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Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. Yale Lecturer William Zinsser hit the nail squarely: "The whole notion of New Year's Day as the time of fresh starts and bold resolutions is false." In truth that time is autumn. Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier. Some psychiatrists have patients who grow almost alarmed at how congenial they suddenly feel. Autumn is a friendlier time...
Mankiewicz ought to embroider that message on a sampler and nail it on the wall, because there is little love between Donner and Producer Spengler. Already Richard Lester, who directed both Musketeers, has been brought in as "consultant," a move that can only give pause to Donner, whose one major credit is The Omen. Donner further frets that Superman's superhype may backfire. "Look what happened to King Kong and The Great Gatsby," he moans. "I keep telling the producers to just let the picture open with only normal advertising. It'll sell itself...
...paid cash for everything." Another athlete admits that he did not file tax returns on his track earnings. Says he: "I felt the AAU would find out that I was paying income tax on money I shouldn't have had in the first place and would try to nail me. I didn't know how to pay taxes without jeopardizing my track career...
...lacrosse faithfuls who converged on the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium for the title duel were looking forward to a delicious replay of the nail-biting squeaker the two squads staged during the regular season, a game the Big Red won with a second-half rally...
While Vik was racking up the low round for the tournament, Prendergast and Tervainen were engaged in a tooth and nail battle for medalist honors. Tervainen was comfortably in front of the green in two while Prendergast hit a drive that hooked to earth like a shot grouse. "He just quacked the sucker," said Donovan. "It was the worst shot I've ever seen. Everyone was gasping...