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...taken, and hotel lobbies, office couches and National Guard armories quickly filled with refugees. Some 80,000 stranded commuters slept in cavernous railroad stations. At Grand Central, one man was determined to get something more comfortable than a marble bench. "Kind of jokingly, I suggested he take a sleeper to Detroit on our Wolverine Express," said Ticket Seller Fred Hopkins. "So what does...
French S-Cab: If you were making up a description of a dream course in intermediate French, it might sound very much like French S-Cab, which looks like the biggest sleeper of the summer. Its based on a study of six of the best French films of the last 27 years, from La Grande Illusion to Jules...
...SUBJECT WAS ROSES (Columbia). Winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the sleeper hit by New Playwright Frank D. Gilroy is written with precision, warmth, acute observation and unfailing honesty. The superb ensemble playing of Jack Albertson as the father, Irene Dailey as the mother, and Martin Sheen as their son is admirably recaptured in this album...
Either John, Scott or Jim McCandlish will probably start for the Crimson. Like the rest of the team, they've performed erratically this season. McCandlish strung together several good performances, appeared to be the "sleeper," on the Crimson mound staff, but against Penn on Saturday was wilder than a Borneo native. After being shelled in his two previous outings, Scott turned in a sparkling relief performance against the Quakers...
...wedge - heads down, backs stiff, muscles tense, and PUSH! Stagg made it fun to watch and infinitely more fun to play. He dreamed up the huddle, the direct pass from center, the shift, the man in motion, the unbalanced line, the onside kick, the delayed buck, the sleeper play, the Statue of Liberty. In 1906, the year the forward pass was legalized, he had 64 pass plays in his playbook - and Chicago lost only one game, to Minnesota, 4-2. He coached at Chicago for 41 years, fielded four unbeaten teams, and won six Big Ten titles...