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Earlier, Princeton's Lockenmeyer had spun another of his head-shakers at the visitors. Harvard took a 1-0 lead in the third on two errors and a sacrifice, but the senior was untouchable, going 20 batters without a hot or a walk until Bauer's soft liner found turf with just four outs...
...ball spun around the perimeter, as the Crimson looked to get a pass inside for the winning layup. Dixon to Mannix, back to Dixon, over to Joe Carrabino on the left baseline, the seconds ticked past the half-minute mark and toward another overtime stanza...
...finest French silk, spun by the larvae only the most aristocratic of silkworms, could speak, it would sound like Lauren Bacall. Affixed to a body that, in the '70s and '80s, has become the grist for more than a few older woman fantasies, that voice could fill a theater with a dramatic reading of the Globe classifieds. And that, alas, seems to be the theory behind Woman of the Year...
Since Dallas, Lorimar has launched three more sexy serials, and two of them are paying off. Knots Landing, which spun the Ewings' gray-sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
DIED. Beulah Bondi, 92, ever sprightly character actress who spun a 50-year career out of portrayals of sweet, tart, tetched and/or touching older women in scores of films, including the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which she was the ma of the young Senator played by Jimmy Stewart; in Woodland Hills, Calif...