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...northeast. The cross country run, with Dartmouth's own Tim Caldwell the heavy favorite, was run Thursday at Holderness Academy, forty miles to the north. Only the carefully prepared 40-meter jump will be held at the Carnival site on Saturday. The figures of Walt's mouse and duck and dog, lately sold as decals on t-shirts and coffee mugs, will be fitting monuments to this bad luck, disjointed season, to the spread out modern carnival...
...Whitlam knows he cannot avoid an election showdown indefinitely. He gave some indication of the line he may take when he confided to colleagues last week: "I won't be a lame-duck Prime Minister. Anyone in this job enjoys it, but there is no point in enjoying the prestige if one cannot deliver the goods." The prospect is that he will take his chances at the polls next year...
...most fruitful years were with Warner Bros, in the '40s and '50s, when he played stepfather to existing characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and created such new ones as a warring Bear Family, a libidinous skunk called Pepe le Pew and, above all, the most popular animated figures since Donald Duck: the maddeningly capture-proof Road Runner and his perennially thwarted nemesis, the Coyote...
Cameo Perfection. In the 250 films that Jones has directed-most of them no more than six minutes long-he has laid waste the pretensions of grand opera (What's Opera, Doc?, Rabbit of Seville), made black comedy out of nuclear warfare a decade before Dr. Strangelove (Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century), played with the mechanics of film making (Duck Amuck, which might be called the Persona of animated cartoons), and lampooned every movie genre from cops to swashbucklers. His One Froggy Evening, starring a mysterious singing frog called Michigan J., is a morality play in cameo...
...make his desk into a hot-dog stand, with steam rising from every aperture. Others rigged up an elaborate early-warning system, complete with flashing red lights, to enable everyone to assume a busy air before the visits of a producer whose spluttering lisp furnished the inspiration for Daffy Duck's voice ("Put in more jokes, fellowth...