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This year Park has to fill the mighty large vacancies left by All-East pitcher Roz Brayton and the 1973 EIBL batting champion Kevin Hampe as well as hard slugging left fielder Hal Smith...
...dramatic tale whipped out on deadline. The Philadelphia Inquirer, however, wired Murphy its reservations: "Request urgent rewrite of first-person kidnap account. Suggest lead is in twelfth graf. Suggest perhaps you are too close to story. Suggest step back, take another look. Can you comply?" Constitution Associate Editor Hal Gulliver, who received the message in Murphy's absence, did not know whether to laugh or cry. So he replied: "In the unhappy event that one of your staff is ever kidnaped, which we fervently hope never happens, suggest he write first-person in whatever fashion he chooses...
...Director Hal Ashby further jags the film with fade-out-overlap transitions, the idea being that everything is in transit, with close-ups of buses and trains, dolly shots galore. This is a self-conscious technique, particularly when the general look of the film is dull and formless. Even when you're trying to put across existential banality there's no reason to sacrifice style, but Ashby does. The prison-to-prison closedness of the action seemed to make the moviemakers shove messy details into the inbetween rather than shape new levels of meaning or regulate the rhythm. "Significant" background...
Pueblo. An ABC drama about the North Korean seizure of the electronic intelligence ship, USS Pueblo. This repeat, starring Hal Holbrook, supposedly works on a dream-like structure, and since it's all based on the public record, that's probably the best way to do it. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
McCleery is an affable white-maned optimist of 62. He readily admits that his current lifestyle at Princeton is as fulfilling for him, a man consumed by his devotion to theater, as those days when he was a Broadway collegue of Helen Hays, Hal Holbrook, and Peter de Vrees. He exhibits a paternal fondness toward his students and their work, getting as excited about their plays and productions as about the professional scripts and shows he worked on in the past. He likes their fresh approach to theater, their desire to experiment, and their enthusiasm for their work...