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Progression of Delights. Unquestionably, the plaza's most immediate triumph is its playground. Architect Simon Breines, who grew up playing stickball on the streets of Brooklyn, provided Riis Plaza children with a stupendous place to play. With Landscape Architect Paul Friedberg, he designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
...fiction, the less said about "Vietnam" the better. It's all been said before and the piece is unwarranted. The other essay, a study of "Comic Realism and Dramatic Artifice in Ben Johnson" (by Harris Friedberg '67) reads like an English paper (which it may have been) but a very good English paper. The writing is interesting and well-done, and if you enjoy reading literary criticism you could do a lot worse...
...last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot...
...Billy Friedberg, producer of Harry's Girls, is delighted with your interest in this new NBC-TV series [Aug. 16], but regrets he is not the man surrounded by beauties on the beach in your picture. That is Larry Blyden, star of the show...
...hand will be a team of nine Americans, eight Englishmen, 50 Frenchmen and one Spaniard. Some will do the acting; others will handle the cameras as they sweep across the endless strips of white sand and incredibly blue bays. But the producer of Harry's Girls, Bill Friedberg, is less interested in the terrain than in the kind of girls he wants for Harry - the mostly bikinied, unemployed actresses and models who are found in abundance on the beaches of Cannes, Juan-les-Pins and Monte Carlo. They should make most viewers forget about Harry...