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...pretty important." Swift and sturdy (6 ft., 205 Ibs.), Hadl grew up seven blocks away from his college's stadium in Lawrence, as a boy watched in admiration while Oklahoma rolled over K.U. Says Quarterback Hadl: "Liking Oklahoma was the craze in those days. It ain't any more...
...lack of enthusiasm for either candidate, and 3) the popular vote, as polled so far is so close that a small change in either direction could mean an electoral landslide. Along with the familiar "don't knows," polltakers have discovered a new category that might be called the "ain't telling" vote...
...years Joan Littlewood's Theater Workshop has turned from a semi-impoverished repertory company into a money-coining enterprise. Wolf Manko-witz' Make Me an Offer, ex-Convict Frank Norman's Fings Ain't What They Used to Be, and five other Workshop plays have succeeded in the big time. None of this particularly impresses Joan Littlewood. who thinks that both the West End and Broadway are "contemptible as art and unsuccessful as business." Her avowed aim is "to break up the teacup theater...
...smell of cold porridge and soft coal. her stage with people of small means and great imagination. She likes her characters to rub hips with spivs, tarts, pansies and drunks, in whose vernacular a whore is a brass and a pimp is a ponce (one song in Fings Ain't What They Used to Be is called The Student Ponce). But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams of crippled psyches, and a John Osborne casts about in it for new glooms and repeated angers. Littlewood insists on playwrights who swoop low with exuberance...
...says, "Nobbad, but Unitas he ain't," he is an inveterate Boston football follower...