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...former manager has distinguished himself militarily. He is Clifton F. Von Kann '37, former baseball manager, who is a Brigadier General, the Director of Army Aviation, and a former Assistant Chief of Staff. He has won many decorations, including: Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pendant, the Senior Parachutist Badge, the Army Aviation Badge, the War Department General Staff Identification Device, the Cross of Military Victor (Italian), and the Presidential Citation (Republic of Korea...
Deliberate Confusion. Parody shows its proudest paces when matched with the trend-setting writers. Thomas Wolfe's uncapped autobiographical gushes ("I, or me, the youth eternal, many-visaged and many-volumed") are shown in all their wonderful but wobbly workings by Clifton Fadiman, whose irresistible caricature should make any further sheep think twice before they don Wolfe's clothing...
William Hickey and Clifton James make a fine Laurel & Hardy team out of Trinculo and Stephano. Anne Fielding. Rae Allen, and Sada Thompson look pretty and sing well (particularly Miss Allen) as the goddesses Iris, Ceres, and Juno in the brief but beautiful Jonsonian masque arranged by Prospero. Lee Hoiby's incidental music is admirable, though his songs lack distinction. Robert Fletcher's set and costume designs and Tharon Musser's lighting are suitable...
After nine weeks of intermittent babysitting in Manhattan, Grandpa Harry Truman and Grandma Bess were sad and glad to be relieved of their duties. They hustled little Clifton Daniel, 3, and his brother William, I, down to a pier where the boys' parents, Margaret Truman Daniel and New York Timesman Clifton Daniel Jr., disembarked from the liner United States after a European tour...
...Shawn who persuaded a skeptical Ross to introduce the magazine's excellent World War II coverage, and to devote an entire issue to John Hersey's report on Hiroshima. Shawn is now handicapped by the fact that most of the writers (Thurber, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Clifton Fadiman, Joel Sayre, Alva Johnston, et al.) and cartoonists (Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, O. Soglow, Gardner Rea, et al.) who made The New Yorker famous have either died, wandered off to the exurbs, or become infrequent contributors. E. B. White's civilized despair and gentle celebration of nature...