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Princeton and Penn had poisoned the Lions' 3-1 Ivy League record with back-to-back wins last weekend. Earlier, the Lions were served up as a tidbit to a number one ranked Indiana Hoosiers squad over Christmas weekend, losing 106-63 in a game in which they were given as much of a shot as a flickering candle in a Topeka twister...
...human interest" angle surfaces late in the film, when we find out that Sonny is robbing the bank to finance his male lover's sex-change operation. (It's true, it's true, pipes up Lumet at the end of the film, flashing tidbit titles on the screen with such information as "Leon is now a woman and lives in New York".) The fluttery, tearful character of Leon, on screen for only 15 minutes, elicits more sympathy for Sonny and does more to establish his humanity than all the antics we've already seen. Other shreds of Sonny's life...
...aide remembers being with Johnson and Hoover when Hoover was reporting on important people linked to the gambling world. Johnson was fascinated, but hesitant. How did Hoover know these things? he asked. Because of wiretaps, Hoover told the President. Then Hoover would drop a tidbit or two. Johnson was all ears, but he would protest, "All right, all right," as if he wanted Hoover to stop. Hoover did not stop. He kept on talking, and L.B.J. kept on listening. Johnson was hooked and Hoover knew...
...thing he said in his gloating hour of torment stuck in my mind. And while I usually reject everything that comes out of his mouth on principle, this tidbit wouldn't go away...
Landau's best tidbit, maybe. "Major disclosure." no. Details of the Kissinger-Marcovitch-Aubrac contact chain between Washington and Hanoi were reported by David Kraslow (N.F. '61-2) and Stuart Loory in a syndicated newspaper series in the spring of 1968. The Harvard Bulletin carried the story in its issue of April 27. 1968. John T. Bethell Editor, Harvard Bulletin (Although reports of the existence of the Marcovitchaubrac mission were published earlier, Landau was the first journalist to uncover the details of the affair...