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...UMass dug in and stopped the Crimson attack and Whelchel had the ball again. He threw to Walt Morin, the 240-pound end who was carrying defenders three yards after they caught him, then to fullback Mike Ross, then to Meers on a fourth-down play that put the ball on Harvard's nine-yard line. One play later Whelchel took it in himself, rolling out of the hands of a defensive lineman and into the end zone...
MARY POPPINS. In Walt Disney's drollest movie in years, Julie Andrews works miracles as the rosy-cheeked young nanny who slides up bannisters and whisks the kiddies off to the airier reaches of a fantasy that offers many more lifts than lapses...
...Having put a whole series of nannies to rout, the two Banks youngsters compose a want ad listing desirable qualifications: cheery disposition, rosy cheeks, plays games. Father tears it up and writes an advertisement of his own that draws a queue of cross, solemn applicants. Before you can say Walt Disney, they are whisked away from the doorstep by a high wind, and over the rooftop sails Mary Poppins, dangling from her open umbrella. "I'm sure the children will find my games extremely diverting," she announces blithely...
GENERAL ELECTRIC. The genial genius of Walt Disney, which also perks up the pavilions of Pepsi-Cola and Illinois, is responsible for this amusing tale of what electricity has wrought in the home. Dad brags about his household appliances through three generations, but Mom, rescued from work, has the last word. Besides Disney's dummies, G.E. has a display of nuclear fusion...
...eagerness to pardon military deserters (the mothers of the country, he argued, should not be made to suffer more than they had), and for the "exhibitionistic and self-destructive impulses" reflected in a recurrent dream that he would be assassinated before his second term was out. As for Walt Whitman, he would never have poured so much sexuality into his poetry and realized it so imperfectly in his life (he was impotent, with strong homosexual inclinations) if he had not been so strongly attached to a mother who was illiterate and unable to understand him or his literary ambitions...