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...disturbingly rapid succession, two top Democratic Representatives-Virginia's Clifton A. Woodrum and Georgia's Robert Ramspeck-informed the House that they were quitting the Government. Reason: overwork and underpay...
Many U.S. critics have hailed Author Remains' jumbo panorama with awe. Wrote Critic Clifton Fadiman who has been awed all along: "When the little ones ask, 'Grandfather, what did you do before the revolution?' perhaps the only answer many of us will be able to make will be, 'I was a contemporary of Jules Romains...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday...
Whiz Quiz. Veteran Funnyman Colonel Stoopnagle (Frederick Taylor) played the part, without obvious effort, of a know-nothing layman. Clifton Fadiman played the part, without obvious effort, of the omniscient explainer. Whenever Fadiman got too hot to handle, Colonel Stoopnagle was to order the orchestra to play. There was a good bit of music in the half hour...
...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...