Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUNT ME GONE by Annabel and Edgar Johnson (Simon & Schuster, $3.95). An 18-year-old boy attempts to discover himself by rehashing four wild days that led to an automobile crash...
...book's comic tone is bland rather than pithy, a little disappointing coming from Neil Simon. The rhythms of the Burt Bacharach score sound like sporadic rifle fire, and aside from one melodic lament, I'II Never Fall in Love Again, the songs are interchangeably tuneless. In the first-act finale, a Christmas office-party number produces a vigorous choreographic commotion, except that it obviously attempts to duplicate the volcanic Brotherhood of Man sequence in How to Succeed...
...WHALE..287 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...injured seriously in a bone-jarring collision in the second quarter, returned two minutes later to spark the defensive backfield. He got support from former All-State Wisconsin soccer player Scott Jacobs who picked off two errant Eli passes. Pete Lennon, Tom Southwick, Jim Kitch, Chuch Hagen, and Barry Simon kept the pressure on the passer all day long...
Measured by the emotion it inspires among fans, no other U.S. sport quite compares with pro football. And no team compares with the National Football League's New York Giants. As Eliot Asinof puts it in a new book on the Giants, Seven Days to Sunday (Simon & Schuster, $5.95): "If you are a Giant fan, you have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor...