Word: archly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never a Pundit. Swayze is also getting some belated recognition from the two mediums in which he worked for 20 years. Early this year, McNaught Syndicate hired Swayze to do a column called "New York," now appearing in 50 newspapers-a sentimental and often arch performance which reminds some readers of the folksy prose of the late O. O. Mclntyre. And last week, Swayze signed with Sponsor Raytheon (TV sets) for a 15-minute radio news program starkly entitled John Cameron Swayze...
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...
...Park one day last week to the thump of a Salvation Army band. With the Archbishop of Canterbury as keynote speaker, they were celebrating the United Christian Rally-one of the opening events in the Festival of Britain. Meanwhile, only a few blocks away in a church off Marble Arch, a Church of England service was being held expressly to proclaim the fact that even England's state church is divided and that Britain's Christians are not one body...
...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...