Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daughter of a construction worker and a schoolteacher, Hufstedler earned a bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of New Mexico ('45) in 2½ years. She worked briefly as secretary to Stars Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith, then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where she graduated tenth in her class ('49) and married the man who graduated No. 1, Seth Hufstedler. She practiced general civil law in Los Angeles until 1961, when Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown named her a Los Angeles County superior court judge. In 1966 he promoted her to the California...
...Radcliffe team lost its first two races of the Women's Team Racing Championships on October 13th to Tufts and URI. They fought back, however, winning their last four races to gain a tie for first place with Brown and URI. Kate Jennings, Meredith Stelling, and Rachel Lampert skippered the boats to victory while Lisa Glen, Liz Miller and Beth Latouf crewed...
Egging Rocky on as well is his trainer Burgess Meredith, who looks like he'd been in one too many fights himself. Meredith mugs his way through a tailor-made role, but his is still the most enjoyable performance of the film...
...brother (a newly slim Burt Young) must dart in and out of scenes to deliver plot information. Once Rocky starts to train in earnest, the film becomes less a sequel than a prosaic remake. "For a 45-minute fight, you got to train 45,000 minutes," barks Trainer Burgess Meredith. He isn't kidding...
IDIGRESS: the novel. Peter Gent, a former Dallas Cowboys flankerback in the days of Don Meredith, is also the author of the steaming, apocalyptic, and very good North Dallas Forty, the best novel ever written about pro football, not as limited a field as you might imagine. Texas celebrity Turkey Trot, which was excerpted last small in Sports Illustrated, and will be called by many another pro football novel, is not quite as good, I am sad to report. Readers of the sports pages will want to pick out who its characters are based on. Since Gent's autobiographical hero...