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...MONK'S TIME (Thelonious Monk Quartet; Columbia). Monk stubbornly hammered out his style when nobody much cared, still has plenty to say now that he is in a continuous spotlight. Using his own dies to cut the rhythms and shape the harmonies, he remakes each song (Nice Work if You Can Get It, Memories of You). Lulu's Back in Town is one of his better top-to-toe transformations...
Behind these three come a host of sophomores, some of whom may well push Abramson and Fowler out of the spotlight. In the freestlye events. Jim Seubold is a threat in both the 100 and the 200 yard races. As a freshman. he set a University record of 1:49.7 in the 200 freestlye, breaking the old record held by Abramson. Top man in the sprints may be another sophomore. Andrew Grinsted...
Garcia hunted up a doctor, who stitched up a 1¼-in. gash cleaving through to the skull. For Garcia, a laconic, spotlight-shunning sort, the aftermath was almost worse than the ordeal of the rescue. There were grateful phone calls from Premier lagan's U.S.-born wife Janet, a U.S. State Department protest, and an announcement that the mounted cops who had ignored Garcia's pleas for help had been suspended. The final flourish was the arrival of a delegation of East Indian women who brought a document of thanks and a pair of gold cuff links...
...Spotlight. Parseghian's move to South Bend last January was more like a homecoming than an arrival. He was introduced between halves of a basketball game, and the students gave him a ten-minute standing ovation. In mid-February, 3,000 turned out in two feet of snow for a mammoth pep rally. If it was spirit they wanted, spirit he gave them. At spring training he whipped out a letter written by a former Notre Dame player who had been seriously injured in an auto accident. Rockne couldn't have done it better. Voice quavering, Parseghian read the letter...
...with a talkathon that included a suggestion that it make cottage cheese easier to find in its stores. Usually armed with a little bit of stock and a lot of cheek, professional scolds seldom miss a chance to bait corporate officers, make speeches and generally turn the spotlight on themselves...