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...Chase. As he drove off, he was stopped by a neighbor named Clifford McDonnell, who had heard the telephone alarm. Ellis fired again and left McDonnell bleeding from a wound in the neck. A few minutes later his car stalled and another neighbor named Deo Gardner and two men drove up beside him in the dark. Answering a question, Ellis shouted: "I hear there's been somebody murdered back up the river." Then he shot and killed Gardner...
Golden Boy (by Clifford Odets),though perhaps the most popular of Odets' plays, scarcely ranks among the best. Its theme -the demoralizing values that go with quick, flashy American success-is as vital today as it was during the '30s. But Odets' treatment, though often dramatic, was always prefabricated, and at times now it seems both dated and flat. The brutalization through big-shotism and the defeat through victory of Joe Bonaparte, who becomes a prizefighter and breaks his violin-playing hands, is given a copybook patness. Joe's violent racing-car death merely adds...
Died. Alexander Graeme Clifford, 42, chief European correspondent for the London Daily Mail and one of Britain's most scholarly newsmen; in London. In World War II, he covered the fall of France, the North African campaign, the Normandy invasion and the Greek civil war. While touring Germany in 1950, he learned that he had Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymph nodes), never discussed it with anyone but his wife (daughter of Author Robert Graves) and a few intimates. Without slackening his work, he continued to rove European capitals for news, visited the U.S., wrote a book...
...Alfred Clifford, real estate counselor and Trust executive, reports many students have told him that their dates are getting in after the 1 a.m. deadline because of the clock's absence. Clifford replied that these worries will soon be over as the Howard Clock Company reports the clock is almost ready for delivery. The new clock will be identical with the one that had graced the Square for so many years and will be paid for by the insurance company...
...agree with the "Beacon" that the cross burning incident is a very distressing occurrence. But their reference to "racism" at Harvard was in poor taste, and in my estimation shifted the emphasis away from the true root of the problem. Clifford L. Alexander...