Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jolla, Calif. tj Reports Bumblie's headmaster, Gerald Miller, no wet weed: "If such a wonderful hoax had happened up at university, it would have gone down as a great university prank. Some people thought it was terrible and required discipline, others that it was deucedly clever and should be laughed off. I decided the latter, so he has had no punishment and will get none." Added the Head, who is also getting mail about Bumblie: "I hope your readers are happy about...
...what I saw. I found the then President Tran Van Huu definitely pro-American and highly regarded by those Vietnamese who are favorable to the West. Although he left me with a clear impression that he felt that Viet Nam will eventually fall to the Communists because of the clever Communist propaganda program directed to what the masses wanted to hear-independence and freedom from colonial rule-I felt that against this is the fact of the existence of strong anti-Communist organizations with large private armies having headquarters at Saigon . . . It is to the concerted power of such groups...
...outstanding short on art, entitled The Experience of Cubism. An Italian production, the film provides some real analysis of technique in addition to the usual minute reproduction of canvasses. Also, there is a beautifully-photographed short on fountains in Rome, and even the Bugs Bunny cartoon is unusually clever...
Miss Johnson's The Ward for the Criminally Insane lacks the form and texture of drama. Rather than a play, it is a clever idea surrounded by dialogue that, expanded and given direction, might have become first rate writing. As it stands, it is a bit disappointing. Miss Johnson, instead of wrestling with such problems of construction as how to run some line of interest through her conversations, is content to let her sketch meander from its beginning to its end. Never seeming to head anywhere, it just wanders, then stops, building toward nothing in particular...
...best defensive Crimson work came from first linemen Terry O'Malley and Bill Cleary who wasted away penalty minutes with two forwards in the box by clever stick handling...