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Ellen O'Neill, playing at Finn's center halfback spot, robbed the Big Green of a tying tally when she stopped a drive inches shy of the Crimson goal line. Minutes later. Trina Burnham, shifted to O'Neill's right halfback position, sped in front of a pass to parry another dangerous thrust...
...manicured beard, debaucher's lips and a forehead that recedes in disapproving furrows almost to the collar line, Paul Bartel looks like the last surviving member of the Preston Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) sped moviegoers giddily through World War II, might appreciate Bartel's continuance of that tradition, as actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll in the image...
With 28 minutes left in the game, B C got its final tally of the evening on some miscommunication in the Harvard defense Intercepting a deep pass into the Crimson end Ricapito pushed the ball back to Coogan Anticipating the play, Toensing sped in and took the ball off the Crimson 'keep's feet and fired into the empty net for his second goal of the night...
...Beirut, headquarters for much of the Western press in Lebanon, after leaving his film with Halevy and Rubinger. Concerned that Phalangist roadblocks would prevent them from getting to Israel to transmit their reporting and film back to New York City, they tossed their suitcases into a rented car and sped out of East Beirut. They were in Israel only long enough to get their first round of work safely en route to TIME in New York before they were back in Beirut to cover Gemayel's funeral in Bikfaya and rejoin Photographer Frey in covering Lebanon...
...when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal. pistol to the back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made the hit something special...