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DADDY WARBUCKS KNEW how to play the game, Just let anybody mess around with his little orphan, Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Games People Play | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

But maybe he is. At least, that's the impression the reader gets from The Gamesman, psychologist Michael Maccoby '54's latest entry in the pop sociology derby. Maccoby's book is an interesting profile of what he calls the new American corporate elite, a series of case studies designed...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Games People Play | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Annie runs away, is recaptured, and escapes again when Oliver ("Daddy") Warbucks (Reid Shelton) makes a request for an orphan child on whom to lavish a billionaire's Christmas bounty. Guess the rest; it's no great test. Of course, you might not guess that President Franklin D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No Waif Need Apply | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

For valiant and convincing service on the acting front, Reid Shelton gives Warbucks an unparched humanity. Without Alpo to lure him on, Sandy proves an artful trouper even if he doesn't say "Arf." Since Annie is the sort of wholesome family fare audiences are always supposed to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No Waif Need Apply | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

From the soaps to Broadway. It's enough to make a girl say "Leapin' lizards." Which is just what Search for Tomorrow's Andrea McArdle, age 13, does in her new role as Little Orphan Annie. The Broadway-bound musical Annie, now playing at Washington's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 14, 1977 | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

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