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Harvard jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning when Dave Singleton led off with a single to right, moved to second on Rick Pearce's sacrifice bunt, and scored on a 325-foot double to left field by Mark Bingham...
...only real challenge of the day came at number one singles, where Captain Dan Waldman nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory before polishing off Quaker Rick Meyer, 5-4, in a third-set tiebreaker. Meyer, one of the best players in the East, epitomized the frustrating decline of Penn's once mighty tennis squad--the loss was his third in a final-set tiebreaker this year...
...scrounged it from wherever she could. "When I'd run out of money I'd come back to New York and take whatever job I could, editing, sound, until I got enough to go back," she says. Her uncle is Murray Burnett, who wrote a play called Rick's Place, which later became Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, and earning Burnett the grand sum of $8,000. "Later he wrote a book called Hickory Stick, didn't copyright it, and they made it into Blackboard Jungle. He didn't get a penny for it." Kopple shakes her head...
...Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimantalist" soft spots of Rick in Casablanca or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in Petrified Forest. Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston...
...outdone, Dave Singleton, Paul Halas and Morgan St. John all chipped in with a triumvirate (i.e.-three) of hits, while Rick Pearce reached base enough times to score three runs...