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Ogden Ross skippered the Harvard B crew to a second place as Alex Webb provided good support as crew. After a shaky start that included two ninth places, skipper Steve Saudek and crewman Ted Kramarczky came back to take thirds and fourths in the remaining races...
...Crimson were within four points of the lead until the sixth and final race. Skipper Clem Wood took a disastrous last in that race in the A division, while the Coast Guard won both final races. Skipper Alex Webb, with a crew of Doug Libby, placed first in the B division of that competition...
...ACTING is all very competent, and sometimes superlative. Laurence Olivier is excellent as an aging Count Witte, urging Nicholas not to order mobilization and start a war that would surely change the nature of the world while killing millions for a worthless cause. Alan Webb and Jack Hawkins also turn in good performances. Tom Baker is very fine as the lewd and mysterious Rasputin whose deep blue eyes meant the ruin of many good diplomats and the violation of even more young women. All the characters possess a remarkable physical similarity to their historical conterparts; in Lenin's case...
...Union and came back with the report, "I have seen the future, and it works." Similar enthusiasms for the New Soviet Man were voiced by Andre Gide, George S. Coints and dozens of other visitors. All of this was summed up in the incredible book by Sydney and Beatrice Webb: Soviet Russia, A New Civilization...
When it opened several months ago, Connection was a surprise success; its backers didn't foresee the potential market for an American police film made without an "angle"--without the heroic tough-guy romanticization of the early detective stereotype, without the Jack Webb variant ("it's a dull, tough job but I wouldn't have it any other way, and only the facts please, Ma'am,") and without the exploitation-potential of a hero-villain with an especially pathological personality. Working in the realm of the possible (if not quite the typical) Friedkin has disciplined his actors to imitate real...