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What a Way to Go! is five or six big, splashy movies rolled into none. Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a pair of permanently show-struck Broadway librettists, it sets out to satirize the very things it seems head over heels in love with: moom pitchers and the cult of "success-money-success." Shirley MacLaine plays a freckle-faced Ohio gamine whose pastel American Dream is marred by the Midas touch. She wants only "a simple life with one man to love." But the men she marries have a way of getting rich quick, leaving her in widow...
...other NCAA tourney action, Ohio University used its height advantage to shock the University of Kentucky Wildcats, 35-69. The game ended the illustrious college career of Kentucky All-American Charles "Cotton" Nash and aborted coach Adolph Rupp's drive for an unprecedented fifth NCAA tournament crown...
...Adolph W. Samborski '25 has been appointed Harvard's Director of Athletics...
...January the Christian Century noted with considerable concern that the man who has guided the World Council of Churches since its formation fifteen years ago would be stepping down from his position as General Secretary "within a year or two." The ecumenical magazine pondered the chances of replacing Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft and concluded that it was not possible. For Dr. Visser't Hooft is at once a kind of charismatic leader-prophet, an astute theologian, and a gifted diplomat. His successor may be one or some of these things, but it is unlikely that he will be them...
...York Times, the word dynasty has a special meaning. Since Adolph Ochs took over the paper in 1896, it has stayed firmly in the family, handed down through three generations of descendants. And so last week, when Arnaldo Cortesi retired as the Times's Rome bureau chief, the paper could say goodbye with a special sadness. A member of the Cortesi family had represented the Times in Rome for 60 years...