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Jimmy Porter's women should be alike and they weren't. Alison and Helena are well-bred, stiff, a little nervous -- they'll have an aura of vestal virginity about them forever. But Emily Sisson (Alison) played a trembly faun while Tracy Goss. (Helena) played a la-de-dah matron. So at the end we concentrated on an antique question: which type woman will Jimmy wind up with? Instead we should be watching Jimmy's final gesture of abandon...
Tiger Jack Endricat in the half mile is perhaps Princeton's top man. Heptagonal and New Jersey half-mile champion last year. Endricat could get a stiff race from Harvard's Trey Burns and Tom Callahan. Burns is regaining the form which made him Heptagonal 1000 champion as a sophomore and ought to perform well once he shakes an achilles injury and gets some warm weather...
While the Marxist polemics are dated-who keeps servants, anyway?-the psychological tensions of the play are intact. Actor Roger Hamilton is a bristling porker of a Puntila, rutting, grunting and swilling his way through the part, but Michael Fairman's Matti is a trifle too stiff and condescending to be a Sancho Panza foil to this flamboyantly intoxicated Don Quixote...
...Grim grin" is the way some of his stiff-lipped countrymen seem to pronounce his name, offering a capsule description of the man's work. Graham Greene's fiction over the past four decades has alternated between pain and painful pleasure. He has explored the depths of damnation-and salvation-but with gusto, he has also turned out masterly, this-worldly entertainments. Perhaps the difference between the two is not really as great as it sometimes seems...
...weather has been just as golfless where Holy Cross lives, and the Crusaders should be stiff too. So, with lack of practice being about equal, the Crimson should be headed for its fifth straight win today in Sutton...