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...programs that nobody can begin to see them all. Then there are the absurd lengths to which the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has gone to spread the joy around, with complicated categories that still leave such impossible competitions as this year's between Leonard Bernstein and Vic Damone for the Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Music. And to make it all even sillier, the networks often pay for their employees' memberships in the academy-big heartedness that fosters the cynical notion that network loyalty is expected come ballot time...
...Died. Vic Morabito, 45, owner of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers, who, with his brother Tony, founded the team in 1946, took over direction after Tony dropped dead of a stroke between halves of a game with the Chicago Bears in 1957; of a stroke; in San Francisco...
Died. Diana Wynyard, 58, stately British cinemactress of the 1930s, best remembered by U.S. audiences as the courageous wife in the 1933 Academy Award-winning movie version of Noel Coward's Cavalcade, by Britons for her roles at the Old Vic, where last fall she played a brilliantly sensual Gertrude to Peter O'Toole's Hamlet; of a kidney ailment; in London...
There were plenty of others--Chris Ohiri, who was to break several hundred Harvard soccer and track records, Paul Del Rossi, the best Crimson pitcher in modern times, Vic Niederhoffer, who was to develop into the country's best college squash player, plus all-around standouts like Lou Williams, Tom Stephenson, and Ed Meehan...
...Cassius, Leontes,. The School for Scandal, and Chekhov are both practical and perceptive, helpful cribs for students as well as for actors. Particularly useful for this Loeb Shakespeare Festival is Gielgud's discussion of Lear, including in an appendix Granville-Barker's notes on the play, from the Old Vic production...