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...minutes left to play and the Bears leading 1-0, Crimson coach Edie MacAusland pulled a halfback from the game and added an extra forward in an attempt to generate more offense. For the next four and a half minutes it looked as if her move had been in vain. Then the stick-women finally started to click...
...wishes that could be said for Ted Knight and Too Close for Comfort (ABC, Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.). As Mary Tyler Moore's Ted Baxter, Knight embodied a wonderful comic oaf: vain, inept and hilarious. In his new series he is just another henpecked husband, who must put up with two nubile daughters and fall over a loveseat every eight minutes. The other seven minutes, Too Close slavers over the sight of bountiful Lydia Cornell as she ponders the implications of taking a deep breath. The show can not see the farce for the tease. The actors...
...find time to laugh about their early experiences. Maria Rubinova, who made the trip from Leningrad to Ithaca, N.Y., about six years ago, recalls a typical frustration. It happened when she had been in the country for only a few weeks and spoke almost no English. While searching in vain for the post office, she finally got up enough courage to ask directions...
...wonder the westerners weren't watching the field. Instead their attention focused on the reunion among undergrads after a long summer (classes don't start until October 1) and among graduates after years. Several thousand miles and 49 years later, was the Cardinal's journey in vain? The band would say no; they showed Boston that no matter who wins the game, a jubilee is anybody's ball...
Lippmann helped draft the Lend-Lease Act. He talked World War I Hero John Pershing, then 80, into endorsing Roosevelt's destroyer deal with Britain, helped write Pershing's speech, then in print praised it. Similarly he and his colleague James Reston flattered the vain old Republican isolationist Arthur Vandenberg into supporting the United Nations in 1945, and wrote the turn-around speech that Vandenberg read to the Senate. And, of course, praised...