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Jerry Cutler was born into a family of rabbis. While training as an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn, though, he used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer...
Meanwhile, Savalas is giving a pretty good imitation of enjoying life. He storms without a fluff through grueling six-day weeks of shooting, barely stepping out of character to slip off the set and make phone calls to his bookie, and slurps ice cream happily, surrounded by Greek crew members. "Forget the fame, forget the money; that's nonsense. You get your friends jobs...
When these same two colleges meet again in St. Louis, Mo., in the opening round of that city's Invitational Tournament on December 27, you can bet that coach Bill Cleary, then an assistant to Cooney Weiland, won't let victory slip away as easily...
...exchange for all they took from China, the English gave the Chinese people opium. British ships would anchor off Kowloon or slip up the forbidden coast and run the drug ashore with small launches. In the late 1830s, the famous Commissioner Lin Tse-hsu launched an effective campaign to end this illegal trade. A death penalty for opium dealing was extended to foreigners and Lin sent an urgent plea to England...
...trouble. Average attendance in the W.H.A. is a dismal 5,200 per game. None of the twelve teams has turned a profit since the league was founded two years ago. In the established National Hockey League, where sharp play and packed arenas were traditional, attendance has begun to slip. and there is a shortage of top performers. "There used to be 18 true professionals on each team," says Bobby Hull, the former Black Hawks star who is now player-coach of the W.H.A. Winnipeg Jets. "Now there's an influx of mediocre pros, guys...