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...bizarre ending for this eldest son of an Albanian immigrant who had become a Chicago restaurateur. (Another son, Jim, followed his brother into revue and TV comedy.) Always restless and volatile, John sped through a typical Midwestern youth: football, rock-band drummer high school high jinks, a brief spell at the University of Michigan. Later, he married (and stayed married to) his high school sweetheart, Judith Jacklin. In the early '70s he joined Chicago's Second City troupe, and after playing in a Manhattan revue, National Lampoon's Lemmings, was hired...
Some may complain that Buffett merely romanticizes an elapsed era which is of little relevance today. But the past three decades have proved to be a dry spell for romantics, who are a vanishing breed as it is. Barraged with the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Sirhan Sirhan, Gordon Liddy and Rosie Ruiz, we have been wanting for heroes. And it will be a long time before anyone romanticizes budget cuts--besides they're boring things to sing about...
Fleming played his best game of the season, going 14 for 26 from the floor in spite of his early dry spell and adding four straight free throws for a total of 32 points. In addition, he came up with eight rebounds and two steals. Much of his performance was vintage Fleming, popping from outside and taking the hall to the hoop with equal effectiveness...
From 1962, the first year of the ECAC Tournament, until 1977, the beginning of the current dry spell. Harvard missed the playoffs only twice...
According to Duckett, "He started doing things he was 'supposed' to be doing, and he just wasn't being Donald." Fleming broke out of his dray spell as the Ivy League season started in earnest, but his example wasn't enough to overcome a host of other problems--notably the lack of quickness and a lack of drive--which the Crimson faced...