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Emotional Pitch. A happy blend of determination and high spirits-Dave was touring with her and their courtship was progressing-won Andy the Hannes Schneider Pokal at St. Anton. At Chamonix (where nets are rigged to keep racers from going over precipices), she won the slalom. Then she went back to Austria and in five days won one downhill, two slaloms, and two giant slaloms...
...heavy with literary references, the play started out merely as a blend of Rand McNally with the Five Foot Shelf. But The Grand Tour was easier to take with no plot at all than with the one it acquired. It closed after eight performances, an example of what happens when an established playwright won't face the fact that he has nothing...
Hugh Amory's "Orpheus" almost reached the necessary blend between good poetry and good theatre. This was due mainly to the concessions Amory made to the latter. The story is set in modern Boston, which perhaps adds to its credulity. A young man, spoken somewhat inaudibley by Amory over a loudspeaker, rejects society's values and affirms that the only truth is found within oneself. He tries to force his personal viewpoint on society as the absolute, being too much a moral coward to live alone with his idea. He is finally killed by a thug who wants...
...Phoenicia, N.Y., State Game Protector Henry Bernstein reported that red, the traditional distinguishing mark of hunters, is no longer of much help; too many hunters are colorblind. Elsewhere, experienced hands dressed so as to blend with the background, figuring that they would then have as much chance of survival as a deer...
...they do it? The lure, according to "Saturday's Hero," is a certain peculiar blend of cash, glory, and education. Heroes at Jackson U. do get paid, just enough to make amateurs in the audience restless, but it's obvious that they are being had. An underpriced, unreflective lot who do their jobs without self-dramatization, the players earn considerable respect and sympathy in the course of the picture, and the football scenes are authentic and very exciting. But always before the gridiron can begin to assume the romance or tragedy of, say, a bull-ring, the camera turns...