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NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y.--Ours is not a romantic age, and so it's hardly surprising that, except for his green jump suit, Philip (Phil) McGuire with his broad face and fading hairline looked about as ordinary as any other of the dozen or so people sipping beer in a Long Island bar on a hot afternoon last week. Like them, he was relaxing from work, but his line of business was perhaps slightly more demanding than theirs. McGuire had just returned from two months of flying arms and food into the beleaguered African state of Biafra...
...when Errol Flynn played him as a bold unfortunate in Warner Bros.' They Died with Their Boots On. In this new film, Custer's misbegotten career is further enhanced. Robert Shaw plays Yellow Hair as a soulful glory seeker. Lawrence Tierney is a feisty General Phil Sheridan, Jeffrey Hunter a conscientious Lieut. Benteen and Robert Ryan a deserter named Mulligan, who was shot before the battle. Despite an overabundance of horseflesh, this Custer comes much closer to the complex nature of its anti-hero than any earlier treatment...
...C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide Walt Whitman Rostow...
...actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 11 in., and is, in her own eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams...
...Time, last week; place, Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. Bev erly has at last found her destiny. At 39, she is the New York City Opera's prima donna and clearly ranks as one of the two or three finest coloraturas in the world. At the New York Phil harmonic Promenade Concert, she sings a selection of Viennese arias and songs by Kalman, Korngold, Mozart and Richard Strauss, displaying a faultless voice that sweeps with elaborate embellishments to feathery, accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic...