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...filming was not much, but setting up shots and organizing extras and other such chores stretched one or two short hockey sequences into a three-day stint. The hero, Oliver, is a hockey player from Winthrop House, and Jenny (Ali McGraw) comes to see him play. As Ryan O'Neal, who plays Oliver, had never been on skates until two days before, Bill Cleary, the freshman hockey coach, stood in for him on the long shots-wearing a blond wig that curled out from under his helmet (but only an inch or so) just like Ryan's hair...
Farneti, who is the third in a line of Harvard linebackers after Don Chiofaro and John Emery, teamed with Dale Neal this fall to give the Crimson outstanding strength at the line backing positions. Yovicsin has called him the best player on the 1969 squad...
...seven who are honorable mention are: Rick Berne, Pete Varney, Steve Harison, Rick Frishie, captain John Cramer, John Cassis, and Neal...
...Roald is a muted account of her remarkable recovery, written by a journalist-now a columnist for LIFE -who came for a magazine story and stayed to research a book. In the process he became an intimate friend of Miss Neal and her husband, the English short-story and film writer Roald Dahl. As a comeback saga, Barry Farrell's book fulfills the function of encouraging the stricken. As a family chronicle it has an attraction as unsettling as some of Dahl's own bizarre stories...
Farrell conveys Patricia Neal's feminine qualities with unusual sensitivity. His profile of Roald-a combination of intelligence, stoicism and optimism-is equally good. What Pat and Roald lacks is more of Farrell himself: his own feelings about these people whose lives he has entered, or some audacious perceptions about the events that make up the story-something, at least, to raise this skillful book above the level of the tactful neutrality of its own professional competence...