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Died. Herman Michael Hickman, 46, behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio...
...Wit to Who? In London, Birdwatcher F. W. Hornsby was lauded for reporting the spring's first cuckoo cry, later bravely confessed in the Times that he had been taken in by a neighbor's clock...
...golden-skinned Roman girl who did a turn at Radcliffe. It all leaves him too jumpy to enjoy the landscape between Rome and Perugia, or even the pleasures of an assignation near the Borghese Gardens. With the warning comes a promise. It seems that if the tourist has enough wit to duck when the guns go off, and enough patience to wait for the professional counterspies to bumble through, he will win his girl and go home a hero. At least he does when a competent author organizes a bestselling suspense story...
Noel Coward provides three tales of domestic tribulation, some gatling-gun dialogue and "sophisticated wit," and several of Britain's most capable comic artists take it from there--to make the current Brattle fare well worth indulgence any time this week...
...That Fall. Since his Waiting for Godot, it is hard not to look at every succeeding lesser play as a lost opportunity for another masterpiece. Not that the new play is a total loss: many lines in it bear the authentic whiplash-imprint of Beckett's scathing wit or glow darkly with the grim beauty that only he commands...