Word: neils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hottest Ticket. At the end of last season only three plays had even made their money back. Yet this season began with hit after hit. Playwright Neil Simon credits the British invasion with supplying the spark. "I think there are better plays here because of what London sent us the first half of the season. It got us going." Sure enough, no sooner had Peter Shaffer's Equus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season...
Thurberesque Comedy. In true Hollywood fashion, Carney's award is belated justice. In 1965 it was Carney who made immortal the finicky Felix in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple on Broadway only to be elbowed out of the movie by more bankable Jack Lemmon. If anyone doubted the injustice, two nights after the Oscars, ABC aired a Jules Feiffer sketch of Carney giving a performance of Thurberesque comedy as a harried househusband, a timid man all but overcome by familial concupiscence...
...that time, Harvard had amassed a nine-run lead on another five-run inning in the seventh off Neil and Charlie Castighone and Threadgold had seen enough of what was supported to be Eastern League baseball...
Shortstop Jim Neil is another of Yale's men of many hats. The junior also pitches and swings a pretty mean bat for the Elis. Neil earned EIBL Player of the Week honors earlier this season as he led his team to a double killing of Columbia going four-for-six at the plate and pitching three innings of relief in the first game to earn...
...Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock, an interested EEC observer, declared last week, "We must drain this wine lake in a way that can benefit people who deserve a tipple. In these lunatic circumstances, perhaps we had all better get drunk...