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Goodman first saw Bench play in Shea Stadium against the Mets. Though a New York fan (Goodman wrote the 1969 cover story on the Mets while they were in second place, and is convinced that it boosted them to the world championship that fall),he was deeply impressed by the Reds' catcher. "This season," says Goodman, "has what is probably the best lineup of catchers since the 1950s. And Bench is the best of the best. Barring injuries or flukes, he will certainly have the price of admission to the Hall of Fame...
...delirious lads (Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder), keen on money and each other, develop a plot to blow up a bank safe and stash the take in Mrs. McLeavy's coffin. Mrs. McLeavy is the recently departed mother of one of the boys. Mr. McLeavy (Milo O'Shea) has a lickerish eye on Fay the nurse (Lee Remick), whose charms are available at an ever accelerating price. Investigating them all is a detective called Truscott (Richard Attenborough), who fancies he is fooling everyone by disguising himself as a member of the water board. At the denouement, just deserts...
Logic is lampooned, insanity triumphant in Orton's language, which is preserved here in reasonable facsimile. Miss Remick, dolled up to look like a prize in a shooting gallery, is calculating and amusing. Attenborough and O'Shea are nothing short of hilarious. With puffy face and popping raisin eyes, Attenborough looks like a hot cross bun impaled on a rag mop as he continually cross-examines the befuddled O'Shea. During an interval in the questioning, Attenborough boasts that it was he who solved the notorious riddle of "the limbless girl killer." "Who'd want...
Princeton is trying to build and offense this year, as the Tigers attack lacks experienced talent. Last season, when Princeton compiled a 1=11 record, the tigers never scored more than eight goals in a game. Rookie attackman Jim Shea, their high scorer this season, hopes to lead the team to a better record...
...good word for everybody." Philip Shea, this year's co-captain, said. "He cared about everybody on the team. He is the kind of guy who would be personally concerned--who would lose sleep--if you were hurt or in academic trouble...