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...Robin Barnes, class "A" skier and Radcliffe sophomore, placed 12 in a class of 30 Saturday in the women's division at Bromley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Skiers Battle Class 'A' In Orvis Slalom | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

...five independents -- Maher, Sullivan, Vellucci, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Bernard Goldberg -- caucused for about twenty minutes before the Council's inauguration ceremony began. They could not agree on a unanimous choice, and according to one report, discussed the possibility of a "round robin": a different independent would receive four votes on each ballot...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Sullivan, Vellucci Emerge As Keys To Deadlocked City Vote on Mayor | 1/4/1966 | See Source »

Time was when no Saturday-afternoon kiddie movie was complete with out a Batman-and-Robin episode. Children roared their approval as the "dynamic duo" burst through windows, grappled with thugs and wrestled with wild animals in their lengthy pursuit of the evil Japanese Dr. Daka. Batman fell into cinematic and literary obscurity during the comic-book cleanup of the '50s (in 1954 Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham compared the relationship of Batman and Robin to "a wish dream of two homosexuals living together"). But in the Great Society, everyone lives better, and Batman and Robin have recently been rehabilitated into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Return of Batman | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Richest sources of comedy are the stars, Batman (Lewis Wilson) and Robin (Douglas Croft). As Socialite Bruce Wayne and his ward, Dick Grayson, the two actors draw sneers every time they appear in their '40s street clothes (huge, wide-brimmed fedoras, oversized suits with cantilevered shoulders); when they change to their fighting costumes (masks, jersey pajamas, capes, Jockey shorts and boots), Wilson and Croft prompt more laughter than any other pair since Laurel and Hardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Return of Batman | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...splices just right, Doud and Co-Producer Alen Robin listened to 36 miles of taped interviews to clip out their answers, lined up such easy-to-recognize voices as Swayze and Westbrook Van Voorhis to put the questions. Not every exchange comes off; some are forced, obvious or needlessly raw. But the record does capture some high moments and victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Records: The Splice Is Right | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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