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...barking that ironic command, ABC-TV "NCAA Game of the Week" producer Ned Staeckel put into motion the umpteenth interruption of Saturday's contest between Harvard and UMass. Indeed, television's presence at Harvard Stadium touched all in attendance...
...final touches came with seconds to go in the contest. The Harvard telecast was running ahead of the regional game in the New York area. "Hey, Ned, Chet [Forte, the producer of the New York area game] is two minutes and a commercial behind us," the assistant director relayed. A harried Staeckel ordered a time-out from the ref. And it was decreed. But while Bob Murphy read a promo about the "Wide World of Sports," 20,000 fans sat and wondered why the clock was stopped with 0:01 showing and Harvard ahead...
Over a drink up in the one-typewriter, one-telephone press room, Ned Young, Maddox's campaign director ("'manager' sounds too offensive") tells me the real story behind the pickhandle legend. "The Governor used to own a place called the Pickrick Restaurant and the handles were sold as souvenirs--4000 in two days one time--like those rocks they sell." I begin comparing the little innocuous pet rocks I know with the famed pickhandles and what I had heard about them when Young interrupted my thoughts to remind me once again that there was nothing symbolic about the pickhandle...
...interesting active film maker, Robert Altman, has created a sly, wry, wise study of what fame does to people cursed with that most mixed of blessings. Buffalo Bill Cody (superbly played by Paul Newman) was a legend created out of flimsy cloth by a pulp writer and promoter named Ned Buntline (impersonated by Burt Lancaster), who lurks around the fringes of the film...
Cuff Freedom, Dick Freedom, Ned Freedom, Peter Freeman, Cuff Liberty, Jeffrey Liberty, Pomp Liberty. These are some of the names that Negroes chose when they were allowed to join the Continental Army. The words express the deepest wish of the 530,000 black people in the Colonies. Less than 10% live north of Maryland. In the south about 90% are slaves...