Word: arlene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Career: First command: 6th Pursuit Squadron, Hawaii, 1929, where he won a reputation as one of the service's best aerial gunners. In 1927 he was assigned to fly as Richard Arlen's double in the crash sequence of Wings. In 1939 he went into the Air Corps plans division, where General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz was his "boss; was awarded the DSM three years later for his work on World War II air plans; became a brigadier general. In 1943, appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, won the DFC and Silver Star...
Last year's book for "Seeing Red" was written by Michael J. Arlen '52, Ralph M. Blum '54, Malcolm R. MacDougal '52, and Charles C. Osbourne...
...Lampoon-written prose, Michael Arlen's essay How to Tell a Good Movie from a Bad Movie points humorously to the fallacies in film reviews based on truisms such as: "All English movies are good movies" or "All Technicolor movies are bad movies." Mistrusting these truisms, Arlen builds his piece around his personal way of picking pictures the advice of ten-year old cousin Henry "who knows when to walk...
...Right, by Charles Osborne, an account of a free trip to Hollywood won by two man-hungry uglies, also reads smoothly. But in the Lampoon's one non-movie story. Fish Old of Water by Arlen, it is easy to see why the 'Poon so often draws yawns instead of chuckles. It's the old formula. St. Mark's boy meets sub-deb at yacht club party; he tries to give the impression of being a world-wise man about the beach, she--a sophisticate. Girl sets fast pace for a while, but finally breaks down and acts...
Another feature, not on the movie subject, is a bright take-off by Arlen on Funny Coincidences columns. It almost makes up for his other story. The cartoons and sketches by John Updike, Charles Robinson and Lewis Gifford hold a pretty high level. Gifford's cover, again, is colorful and eye-catching...