Word: vic
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...tradition has not always been part of The Game, according to Vic Gatto '59, who caught a two-point conversion pass in the waning moments to help Harvard overcome a 29-13 deficit and tie Yale, 29-29 in 1968. The radicalism of the 1960s was not conducive to The Game's traditions, he recalls...
...dispute," Leon Schwab, 72, the brother of Founder Jack, decided it was better to close than sell. For its many loyal patrons, news of the demise was a real Hollywood tearjerker. "Everybody's trying to figure out where they're going to gather," said Alice Co-Star Vic Tayback, a Schwab's regular for 15 years. Nursing a final sundae, Schwab was nostalgic: "You know who called the other day? Barbara Stanwyck. She said, 'I want to thank you for taking care of me for 35 years.' " He sighed, still star struck after all these...
When Robin Phillips was 15 and a student at Britain's Bristol Old Vic, his impoverished rural parents provided him ? 1 a week for pocket money, obtained "by selling things from the house, including their wedding presents." The sacrifice bore fruit. At 20, Phillips was acting with Laurence Olivier; by the time he was 30, he was an established director in London's West End (Tiny Alice), on Broadway (Abelard and Heloise) and, by preference, in Britain's regional repertory theaters. His success was certified in 1973 when, at age 31, he won one of the most...
Whenever Laurence Olivier and Sir Ralph Richardson, the two leading men of London's Old Vic, took time off to make a movie (and a few quid), the players felt deserted. There was nothing for it, the company decided, but to produce an outstanding young actor to fill in. So they...
...year-old Alec Guinness, a balding skinnybones with the wide, dashed look of a boy who has just blown his lines in the Sunday-school pageant. In the last six months mild-voiced young Alec has provoked the Old Vic's stage into varied and resonant life. As the Fool in King Lear, Time & Tide found him near "perfection...