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...seven-man board of owner-contributors (including Clifton Fadiman and John Hersey) had taken over to make sure that the infant '47 survived to become '48, when it would take ads. "People have been fired, ideas and departments shelved," they reported. "Any day now you will receive a '47 which we send out (for the first time) with confidence and some pride...
...strokes, but he did not teach him the "big game." Jake figured that out himself-along with such lesser notions as eating football-style steaks before big matches and drinking warm tea between sets as energy boosters. Finally, along came Benefactor No. 4, a brilliant automotive engineer named Clifton Roche...
...book trade's midsummer, or muggier-than-usual, season has begun. Mrs. Murphy, the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, dutifully touted by B.-of-M.'s Bookpicker Clifton Fadiman as "compassionate" and "powerful," is a clumsy, cliche-sodden version of The Lost Weekend. The problem of the alcoholic in society is as grave as ever, 'but The Story of Mrs. Murphy swamps it with glycerine tears and marshmallow emotions...
Kirkland-ss, Winters; 3b, Higgins; p, Harrison; c, Gilpatrick; 1f, Rosinus; cf, Glynn; rf, Gunby; 1b, Clifton; 2b, Zahn. Dudley-c, Bishop; 2b, Boyle; ss, Coughlin; 3b Ryan; 1f, Woods; 1b, Panarese; rf, Gourzis; c, Fraser; p. Curley...
...March 17) chopped off the usual procedure of full discussion in the Mother of Parliaments. Tory Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe used the last few seconds before the deadline to tick off a scathing objection to "a sorry parody of legislative efforts." Then the chopper fell. Grey-wigged Speaker Colonel Clifton Brown cut in; there would be no further debate. The Government's 92 amendments would never even be discussed...