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Touring New England, the Swedes have compiled a 5-2-1 record against prep school, college freshman, and semi-pro hockey teams...
...trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy voted yesterday to make the prep school coeducational in September...
Such are the Candy-coated tidbits found in The Magic Christian, a thoroughly unpalatable adaptation of Terry Southern's 1960 novel. The book, an episodic account of a billionaire's lifelong devotion to "making it hot for people," made at least a reasonably funny prep-school primer. The film (whose script Southern helped write) purports to give upper-middle-class shibboleths a jolly beating. Instead, it is just another flagging satire, with ludicrous overtones of homosexual lubricity...
...Smith, a member of the Harvard freshman team and co-captain with Fitzsimmons last year at Fairfield Prep in Connecticut, said that varsity coach Bob Harrison told him yesterday that Fitzsimmous almost came to Harvard in the first place, but at the last moment chose Duke instead. As is often the case, the final decision involved a financial consideration. "Duke was giving him a free ride, and Harvard wasn't," Harvard guard Dale Dover explained...
Henry's kid had done theatrical bits in prep school; he had even performed in his own satire, Stalag 17 ½. Now he worked the lights and learned, just like another kid did 30 years before. At 21, he won a part in a Broadway service comedy. Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole. Mr. Poole was no Mr. Roberts, but Peter was called another Henry, and it bugged him. "I can hear them in the front row," he griped. " 'It's your old man all over again.' " By the time Peter had made it on stage, his sister was swinging...