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...Tis Mabel, 'tis Mabel," shouted the cast of The Pirates of Penzance as a bonneted young lass stepped demurely from stage right. But the savvy fans at Manhattan's Delacorte Theater would know those brown eyes anywhere. They belonged to Linda Ronstadt, making her operatic debut on the day she turned 34. The rock star seemed a mite shaky in the coloratura runs, but the audience melted when she warbled Gilbert and Sullivan love songs to her devoted pirate swain. So did the swain, played by fellow Rocker Rex Smith, 24. Said he: "When she walks...
...Tis the season for income tax refunds. Early-bird filers are being rewarded these days by the arrival of pretty, green U.S. Treasury checks in the usual sea of junk mail. This year the pleasure is unusually exquisite: more people than ever are getting refunds. By midyear an estimated 75% of U.S. taxpayers will receive an average of $610 back from Uncle Sam. This is up from last year's $510 rebate. Reason: each personal exemption is now worth $1,000, up from...
...This is one we deserved, Cleary insisted. "It's hard to believe we lost." But lose Harvard did, for the seventh time in tis last eight contests, 5-3 before 2346 at Baker Rink. The defeat left the Crimson with a 4-6-1 record in ECAC Division I competition (4-9-1 overall), still struggling for status in the Ivy Division, and anxious to turn the tables when Princeton visits the Bright Center on February...
Many of the press n hand patriotically swallowed Villareale's line--Channel 4 began its late newscast with the report that busloads of Bay Staters were "already en route" to Washington. (The station illustrated the story with a shot of an empty bus returning to tis Bristol, R.I., garage...
...Tis the season to see Perry, fa la la la la. For the 16th year, Perry Como returns to television on Dec. 14 as host of his annual Christmas show. This year the singer, 67, celebrates "Christmas in New Mexico," aided by Greer Garson, a Como friend since Hollywood days. Garson, who now works a cattle ranch called Forked Lightning near Santa Fe with Husband Buddy Fogelson, welcomes Easterner Como to her adopted Southwest and recites the poem "Christmas Eve in Santa...