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DISCUSSING the period of the thirties in American writing, Murray Kempton once remarked that no other age produced so many counterfeit Walt Whitmans. He meant that everyone who wanted his thoughts about society to be believed felt compelled to echo the great grey bard: "I am the man, I suffered, I was there...
Besides an incredible high school program which has produced such old stars as Wilt Chamberlain and Walt Hazzard, and recent pros Mike Banton, Geoff Petrie, and Ollie Johnson--all ten-point plus men--Philadelphia's city colleges have developed some incredibly competitive teams...
These days he is deep in the writing of his memoirs, due to be published this fall. Strewn about his living-room office are piles of books bearing on Viet Nam: Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, Walt Rostow's The Diffusion of Power, Daniel Ellsberg's Papers on the War. They provide context, checkpoints and sometimes hostile fire for Westmoreland as he works through his own recollections. Does he think that he can add to the work of the earlier analysts? "No one else...
...consider Nichols's previous films, this one winds up a major disappointment. By the time Scott's talking dolphins get mixed up in international intrigue and he sends one dolphin to chase down the other, you'll think you're watching a remake of some animal story from Walt Disney's TV show. What's worse, after the world premiere press screening last week, Producer Joseph E. Levine revealed to Boston film critics that plans are already underway to make Day of the Dolphin into a TV series...
Jack Warner shut down the animation unit for a few years during the early '50s when he thought that 3-D was the thing of the future. During the hiatus, Jones worked for Walt Disney, whom he admires ("the D.W. Griffith of animation"), but whose creative control he found restrictive. After a few more years of activity, the Warner Bros, animation unit was closed for good in 1962. Since then Jones has worked mostly on TV, producing a syndicated series called The Curiosity Shop and directing an occasional half-hour animated special, like the sweetly eccentric A Very Merry...