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Sitting Pretty. Clifton Webb is waspishly amusing as the world's most versatile baby sitter (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

BASKETBALL (major H)--William J. Brady, '49; Clifton D. Crosby '50; Stephen F. Davis '49; Michael D. Fansler '46 ocC; Thomas H. Gannon '50; George J. Hauptfuhrer, Jr. '48 (captain); William L. Henry '74 ocC; Walter R. McCurdy '50; William L. Mobraaten '50; William A. Prior '50; John J. Rockwell '50; Gunther K. Rosinus '49; Soloman L. Korhman '49 (manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Varsity Athletes Get Major, Minor H Recognition | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...suburban Mr. & Mrs. (Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara), harassed by their three small boys, an outsized dog and a dearth of baby sitters, run a Help Wanted ad. Result: one Lynn Belvedere is hired sight unseen. To their dismay, Lynn turns out to be a middle-aged male (Clifton Webb), who coolly describes himself as a genius. He is also a polysyllabic practitioner of yoga, and easily the most versatile handyman since Leonardo da Vinci. Before he is done with solving problems and subjugating parents, he fries the whole community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Sitting Pretty, which owes a war-sized debt to The Man Who Came to Dinner, will probably be the first of a series of similar Clifton Webb farces. Thanks to his chilly relish of his lines, and his generally swishy aplomb, the picture is good for many more smiles than yawns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Christopher Morley wasn't there when his fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges chose Josephine Pinckney's Great Mischief for March. That leaves the blame to be split four ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bewitched Judges | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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