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TACKLES: BOB McKAY, Texas, 6 ft. 6 in., 260 lbs.; and SID SMITH, Southern California, 6 ft. 5 in., 270 lbs. As one pro puts it, they are "just big, strong, physical guys who can grind you into the ground." McKay led the charge for the nation's No. 1 team, whose backfield averaged 363 yds. rushing per game; the scouts give him high marks for being at once a great blocker on quick openers and a ferocious pass protector. Smith, says one scout, "has everything it takes-he's powerful, has fine footwork, can pick...
...might be. Carol Simon, as Lilly, the spinster school teacher, has the best musical material of the evening-two ballads ("We're Home" and "If You Promise Me a Rose") in which she expresses her domestic hopes for her ne'er-do-well would-be beau Sid. The songs are pure artlessness carried to the level of high musical-comedy art. The melodic lines are as sweet as an innocent kiss and the lyrics ("Both Sid and me/ Like Company/ So if You're free/ We're home...") are as plain as the heroine and, for that reason, just...
...rest of the principals are great, too. Adorable Eleanor Lindsay is nothing less than adorable as Emerson's wife. And, in an extraordinary stroke of casting genius, Birnbaum has placed Josh Rubins, of all people, in the role of Richard, Sid's teenage nephew who learns the joys of love and drink during the play's course. The part has a lot of laughs, but Rubins never milks them. He is splendid, and so is Sheila Hickey as his intended...
...vaudeville show tailored for big stars. In Take Me Along's case, Merrick's original choice of a star was Anthony Perkins (in the role of Richard). Perkins, however, took another offer (Frank Loesser's Greenwillow), and Jackie Gleason was hired to star instead, in the role of Sid...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Top bananas by the bunch on the first show of Hope's 20th video season: Sid Caesar, Wally Cox, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Buddy Hackett are but a few of the two dozen promised...