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...Quarterback: three promising sophomores will vie for the position that worries Yovicsin most. Bill Kelly is the leading prospect. Kelly is the biggest of the three but the weakest passer. He is a shifty runner and, most important, seems to have the ability to move the team under pressure. John O'Grady was the most highly rated at the beginning of last fall. An accurate passer and good runner, O'Grady's only weakness is his size. He is only 5-10 and 180 lbs. An injury to his shoulder early in the season prevented him from seeing as much...
...VIE PASSIONNÉE OF RODNEY BUCKTHORNE by R. V. Cassill. 243 pages. Bernard Geis...
AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifty "ideal high school girls" vie for the title of 1908's Junior Miss...
...four set out for Braverman's fu neral, bickering all the way to the Brooklyn synagogue. Sometimes the quarrels center around Booke's Volkswagen, an offense to Wiseman's anti-German sensibilities. Sometimes the men vie with each other in a heated trivia contest (who were the members of the Rinkydinks?). When the quartet collides with a Negro cab driver (Godfrey Cambridge), their debate rises to tidal proportions, only to unroil when the cabbie turns out to be a convert to Judaism. The mourners arrive late for the services and giggle derisively as a rabbi (Alan King...
...judging contests and senior proms, reptile-club snake exhibits and "petting zoos" (for animals tame enough for tots to touch). Porpoises sometimes frolic in the 80-ft. pool at the King of Prussia Plaza near Valley Forge, Pa., and esprit runs so high that clerks don antique costumes and vie for prizes at the annual summer "sidewalk" sale...