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Breaking all records for dullness of plot, static action, and generally bad performances, the latest issuance from the gloomy den of the Twentieth Century foxes is one of the most puerile movies ever to mesmerize a squirming audience. Newly blonde Vivian Blaine, Adler-elevated Perry Como, and hat-heavy Carmen Miranda stumble through ninety confused minutes of political campaigns and corny musical numbers untempered by the inclusion of Harry James' fine trumpet and the funny gags of Phil Silvers. "If I'm Lucky" is a sleepy picture that certainly does not deserve its feature spot on the program...
...coach in a pleasant mood. The pictures revealed that the Crimson's coverage on Tiger passes was good on all but two of Carl Leibert's aerials, and the completed forwards were almost all a case of the rangy Princeton ends outjumping the Harvard backs, a condition nothing but Adler elevator shoes and a butterfingered receiver can definitely cure...
...Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
...Einstein took the entrance examinations for the Polytechnicum in Zurich, Switzerland. He failed, but got in a year later. At Zurich he completed his formal scientific education, became fast friends with the Austrian Socialist leader, political assassin and physicist, Friedrich Adler...