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Although we respect our new coach's enthusiasm in suggesting "sock it to 'om," as the moral booster for the school and the team, we feel that the above is a much more realistic approach to the problem. David G. Black '53 Mark L. Goodman '53 Robert Rosenman '53 John Stadler...
Died. Harvey Dow Gibson, 68, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., sixth largest U.S. bank (TIME, Sept. n), American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then...
Towering twice as big as life were melodramatic figures of Copernicus, Paracelsus, the 16th Century alchemist-physician, and Fischer von Erlach, the Austrian baroque architect. One full-blown nude stood nearly seven yards tall in her bare feet. But with his biggest booster gone, Thorak found his reputation had already shrunk to less than life size. The public sniffed at his glibly traditional sculpture, complained that his 12-foot Paracelsus (1940), intended for the local railway plaza, was not worthy of Salzburg...
...Where Babbitt Senior would have used a lithograph of Whistler's Mother to cover up that hole in the wallpaper, Babbitt Junior would, of course, use a Picasso." Where the older Babbitt hashed over baseball and real-estate prices at his Booster Club luncheons, the new Babbitt talks knowingly (" 'knowing' is the word") about The New Yorker, sex and existentialism in an "adequate little French restaurant in the East Fifties." Where the old Babbitt merely hated art, the new Babbitt "hugs it to death...
Answer in Kind. But the theaters' most touted rebuttal to TV, apart from movies that are "better than ever," is TV itself-large-screen theater television. The leading booster of theater TV is 20th Century-Fox President Spyros Skouras, who has large theatrical interests. Skouras argues that networks of movie houses with their own TV channels or circuits can outbid TV stations and advertisers for rights to sports events, operas, Broadway shows. Such programs, replacing second features on the double bill, would be good enough, says Skouras, to woo the customers from their free home sets...