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Mary Flug Handlin, editor for the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty and wife of Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, died of cancer early yesterday in Stillman Infirmary. She was 62 years...
...more impersonal analyses of figures like Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Cousy. Chamberlain, he says, is the paradigmatic loser; his individual achievement was more secure on a losing team, so his true wish was fulfilled. He portrays Cousy, his childhood hero heroically entering a game in 1969 to replace Oscar Robertson--and then throwing the ball away and losing his man to blow the game for the team he should have stayed on the bench coaching...
...Author Graham Greene, with whom he was to collaborate on some of his best and most atmospheric films, notably The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. Sir Carol's first musical, Oliver!, though not a favorite with critics, won an Oscar as the best movie of 1968 and another for him as the best director...
...play described it to me as "more of an orgy, sort of, than a play." This is its American premier, and as far as I can tell it deals with syphilis coming to the papal court in the 17th century. Or something. An allegory for heaven knows what, by Oscar Panizza. On the Loeb Mainstage, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. $3.00 weekdays and Sunday, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays...
...Council of Love. The American premiere of Oscar Panizza's fairly bizarre play about the arrival of syphillis at the papal court. Sounds orgiastic, but may be good. At the Loeb Mainstage, April 29-May 2, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. Tickets $3.00 weekdays and Sundays, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays...