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Milton King, the Redskins' vicepresident who has been associated with the club for 40 years, reminisced about the past. "I wish George Preston Marshall was here," he said. "But, you know, if he was still alive, he would not be here. He would not have paid the salaries requisite for getting the players here...
...Robert Marasco's unfortunate 1970 Broadway success, this lame tale about the corruption of innocence is little more than a trot for Lord of the Flies. An unpopular Latin teacher nicknamed "Old Lash" (James Mason) is certain that all the trouble is caused by his colleague Dobbs (Robert Preston), whom he describes as a "malevolence" and an "obscenity." Dobbs, however, is beloved of all the boys and Lash heartily despised as an overbearing, paranoid pedant. The bitter rivalry between the two teachers leads eventually to madness, suicide and the equivocal triumph of evil, at least...
Beau Bridges is appropriately agitated throughout. Preston seems miscast, adept at being folksy and jolly but confounded when he is called upon to be sinister. Memories of The Music Man constantly intrude, and we keep expecting him to break into a chorus of Seventy-Six Trombones. James Mason is superb as a kind of misanthropic Mr. Chips. As written, the part is little more than a cartoon. Mason turns it into a full portrait of a frightened man in the process of being destroyed...
...mist of alternation, blown in periodically by the Combine's "log machines." World War II ranks high on the list of society's crimes against her individual members; it set Frank Scanion (Jon Richards) to building bombs with which to blow up his world, and gave Anthony Martial (William Preston) imaginary campanions and a phantom machine gun that jerks in his arms...
...guess you'd have to say this is one of our biggest nights," John D. Preston '73, the club's president, said. Preston, a native of Allen, Ky., said he had not done much campaigning for Nixon's reelection , but was pleased nonetheless...