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Coaches are always saying that kids nowadays are made of no better or worse clay than they ever were, even the captains of the team, the Rhodes-scholar finalists, like B.C.'s Jim Sweeney. Sweeney testified as a Government witness against Kuhn and the other defendants; he has admitted accepting money through Kuhn but denied going along with any fix. When Sweeney spoke of shamefully tacking the $500 in his closet, it recalled Ed Warner of C.C.N.Y. three decades ago, hiding the money in a shoe-box in an aunt's basement. They must have felt about...
...Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Hal Prince and based on the 1934 Kaufman and Hart comedy. With Company, Follies and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim and Prince yanked the Broadway musical into the Age of Angst. This time they have dared to move backward?to tell a story in song of some ambitious young people in reverse chronological order...
...looking up at me from the defendant's table with his big blue eyes. It tore me apart." The jurors sent out for sandwiches, and took a written ballot at 8:30 p.m. No more undecideds. Eight votes to acquit, four to convict. One of the four, Pat Sweeney, the other assistant principal, said she had put a lot of weight on the youth's confinements in mental institutions. Pat Walshe, the lawyer, persuaded her that this was irrelevant, since they had never been told why Terry had been confined. Sweeney erased her reason from the blackboard...
Terry was sobbing uncontrollably as the jurors filed back into the courtroom. When the foreman said, "Not guilty," there was a storm of applause. Sweeney ran to the women's room and burst into tears. "It was very stressful," she said later, "but I wouldn't trade that experience." Added Yudkoff, "It was all a little awesome, really...
Reagan stirred loud laughter when he pulled a letter from his pocket and read the words of eight-year-old Peter Sweeney, a second-grader in Rockville Centre, N.Y., "I hope you get well quick or you might have to make a speech in your pajamas." Reagan let the laughter subside, then read Peter's postscript: "If you have to make a speech in your pajamas, I warned you." More laughter. The letter, part of a class project, had been picked out of mountains of mail by Chief Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, but no one on Reagan's staff...