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...greater than the team total of 14 of the 15 other major-league clubs. Yankee attendance ballooned to nearly 1.3 million, from 619,000 the previous year. The crowds came to watch the power and grace of the Babe at bat; they came to cheer his peculiar pigeon-toed trot as he rounded the bases after clouting one into the stands...
...argued that Collier is cleverly making a heaven of hell. But his film script, published in book form, is a symbiotic work of literary art, fast-paced, clever, well crafted, full of knowledge and delight. Everybody should read it, preferably with Milton as a trot...
...University of Maryland's fieldhouse is jammed and jumping. As the Terrapins trot onto the court, the 20-piece pep band belts out the Maryland fight song. Cheerleaders somersault into the air. Pompon girls wiggle and wave. Then suddenly an expectant hush falls over the crowd as the public-address announcer booms, "And now . . . heeerrre's Lefty!" Pandemonium again breaks loose, the band strikes up Hail to the Chief and out shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin...
Extracted with misplaced fidelity from Robert Marasco's unfortunate 1970 Broadway success, this lame tale about the corruption of innocence is little more than a trot for Lord of the Flies. An unpopular Latin teacher nicknamed "Old Lash" (James Mason) is certain that all the trouble is caused by his colleague Dobbs (Robert Preston), whom he describes as a "malevolence" and an "obscenity." Dobbs, however, is beloved of all the boys and Lash heartily despised as an overbearing, paranoid pedant. The bitter rivalry between the two teachers leads eventually to madness, suicide and the equivocal triumph of evil...
Palaver. All women seem to look pretty good to Mark these days. Over dinner with Coach Chavoor, he prattled incessantly about his cinematic potential: "Maybe I'll do some nudie movies," he said. "I'm hot to trot. Yeah, maybe I'll do a little trotting before we make the movie. One thing for sure, I don't want to end up like Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Those guys were looking for something they couldn't seem to find." Accustomed to such palaver, Chavoor offered his usual reply...