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John Shevlin's performance at quarterback against Holy Cross eased the pain of having to switch Zimmerman to the defensive squad. Veteran John McCluskey is still Harvard's number one quarterback, but now Yovicsin knows that he has someone to step in if Mac falters or is injured...
Shevlin still expects McCluskey to start against Tufts this Saturday. "Mac really did get some tough breaks," he said. "He deserves to start...
Critic John Mason Brown, a cabin mate of Mac Bundy's aboard Kirk's flagship the Augusta during the Normandy landings, recalls that even then Mac was hardly the shy type. "On D-plus-one," said Brown, "I was summoned to the admiral's quarters and all the brass were having breakfast, including General Bradley. Mac was there too-the lowly lieutenant. Bradley was explaining some invasion move, and at one point he said, 'And then we go in here.' Mac said-in effect-'No we don't.' And Bradley accepted...
...Mary Mac & Mary Bill. Bundy routinely works twelve-hour days. He rises at 7:15 or so each morning in his home in Washington's Spring Valley section, bolts his four-minute eggs and coffee, scans the morning papers and chats with Mary (known as "Mary Mac" to distinguish her from another Mrs. Bundy, "Mary Bill"). Occasionally he drops three of his sons off at Washington's St. Albans School; the fourth son entered Groton last year...
...Royce, Mini-Minor, Terry-Thomas. Even without the hyphen, the actor's face would probably have made his name familiar the world over. Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies...