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Crimson coach Cooney Weiland praised his team after the game. "They're just hitting their stride," he said. "The whole team looks tremendously improved, and if they play like that, they can take anybody...
Second time out, in The Seasons' Difference, he runs wide around the turns of meaning, breaks stride in the stretch and pulls up lame at the finish. As before, Novelist Buechner carries a minimum plot load, but the gravity of his theme is enough to make him stumble. He sets himself two problems that have tripped up better novelists: 1) to etch the profile of a saint without making him a prig, 2) to make a religious experience ring with the homely authority of an alarm clock...
Cast as the girl's haughty father, who turns incongruously into a sentimental old dear, Clifton (Belvedere) Webb takes another sizable stride in his descent from actor to movie type. Elopement contains one passably good visual gag: a modern reclining chair that slowly tips its occupant upside down. But the film is so hard up for comic ideas that it has to use the same gag twice...
...Harvard ten. On the next play, pivoting as precisely as a ballet dancer, No. 42 ran-he didn't seem to be running very fast-toward the right sideline. Harvard tacklers closed in. Just before they were on him, and with hardly a break in his stride, No. 42 cocked his right arm, and threw. A Princeton end, running toward the goal line-but he didn't seem to be going very fast either-caught the ball on the one-yard line. The fullback bucked it over. Princeton 12; Harvard 6. In the 70 seconds of playing time...
...pass or quick kick. He is effective at all three. His running has no pounding power, no blinding speed. But a trail of sprawling, frustrated tacklers attests to a swivel-hipped shiftiness, a ball-bearing glide that enable him to change pace or direction without losing stride. Judd Timm, the Princeton backfield coach, an ex-trackman at Illinois, describes Kazmaier's running style: "He runs 'light,' with a nice forward lean; if he wants to slow down to pick up a blocker, he just straightens...