Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting 280 Ibs. of pressure. Three means 265 Ibs., two means 240 Ibs., and one means a bawling out. Burk calls the machine "the Wizard," credits it with much of his crew's success. Last year Penn's varsity eight failed to win a single race; going into last week's Eastern Sprint championships at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., their 1966 record was two for three...
...Wizard or no wizard, the crew to beat at Worcester was Harvard - although Coach Harry Parker was as surprised at that as anyone. Parker had lost seven out of the nine men (including the cox) who rowed the Crimson to seven straight victories last year before losing to Germany's Ratzeburg eight in England's Henley Regatta. This year Harvard's largely sophomore crew was unbeaten in three starts. Still, Parker complained, "My boys need time to develop. We have a long...
...Many thanks for your simply wizard London cover story [April 15]. As a native Londoner, I assure you that London has always been a wonderful town. But it needed a shrewd Yorkshireman and TIME to turn the spotlight on the old girl...
Susan Channing manages to manipulate the audience's hysterics as Cecily, while at the same time remaining carefully within the confines of her role. Sheila Hart looks and acts like Margaret Hamilton as the wicked witch of the East in Wizard of Oz. She fills her governess outfit beautifully...
Crocodiles & Bluebirds. To the trade, on the other hand, David Merrick is no mere figure of fun. He is a monster of rapacity, a genius of publicity, a wizard of organization who over the last decade has personified U.S. theater as no other man, not even Charles Frohman or Jake Shubert, has ever done before. In the 1965-66 season, his supremacy has been absolute. Out of 44 new shows presented on Broadway, Merrick produced only five. But of the season's dozen hits he came up with four: Marat/Sade, Inadmissible Evidence, Cactus Flower, Philadelphia, Here 1 Come...