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There were speakers, a medal from the state of Virginia and a full-dress parade by V.M.I.'s 770 cadets, resplendent in black shakos, grey tailcoats and white ducks. Then Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch rose to dedicate the George Catlett Marshall Arch, a new sally port leading into the new quadrangle at the center of the V.M.I. post...
...Paris gown and a bridal veil that had once belonged to the Empress Maria Theresa, 26-year-old Princess Regina of Saxe -Meiningen - Hildburghausen walked slowly up the aisle under an arch of crossed swords, to take her place beside pale, 38-year-old Franz Joseph Otto Robert Marie Anthony Charles Maximilian Henry Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Louis Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded...
Altar Bound (weekdays 4:15 P-M)-, ABC), transcribed at Los Angeles' Marriage License Bureau, turns loose an exclamatory interviewer named Bob Moon ("You say you're a handbag manufacturer!") on a succession of soon-to-be-wed couples. The ensuing chitchat, enlivened by gushing superlatives, arch evasions and coy giggles, makes no major contribution to the art of man-on-the-street interviewing...
...Five (Arch Oboler; Columbia) tries to imagine what life would be like for the last five survivors of a worldwide atomic catastrophe.* Life, it seems, would be pretty dull. A couple of survivors die off, the third proves a villain who gets his just deserts, the fourth is a girl (Susan Douglas) who cannot afford the gesture of telling the fifth (William Phipps) that she wouldn't marry him if he were the last man on earth...
...most of Five, filmed on a shoestring by Producer-Scripter-Director Arch Oboler, takes place in Oboler's own modernistic eyrie in California's Santa Monica mountains, where the survivors happen to gather from as far away as Mt. Everest and the Empire State Building. Five's intriguing premise, which sorely lacks either dialogue by George Bernard Shaw or the imagination of H. G. Wells, leaves Radio-writer Arch Oboler with his limitations showing...