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...years old and wanted to do something else." Added the 'New Yorker's book editor: "I thought it was time to move over and give someone else a chance to sit in that seat." Thus amicably last week the New Yorker and pudgy, erudite Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman parted company. In ten years Fadiman had become the smartest, probably the best-known, and at times one of the most influential book reviewers in the U.S. Now, said he: "I'm through with reviewing." The resignation is effective at year's end, unless a replacement is found sooner...
...hope for increased production is a new and speedier mold process developed by Stanford University's Bacteriologist Charles E. Clifton. Suggested by the method of making vinegar by dripping alcohol through wood shavings inoculated with bacteria, Clifton's laboratory experiments show that penicillin can be made by dribbling a mold-growing solution through shavings inoculated with the mold. In the present commercial process the mold grows in jars without mechanical help. Clifton's process would result in continuous production...
...four-there is a group of officer who can ask the most ingenious questions. It sometimes looks as though they know the answers and are just trying in find out if the instructor does or not. He generally refuses to be baited and has disclaimed any credit for being "Clifton Fadiman" but if necessary be could fill the role admirably...
Last week Archie toyed with uncommunicative Cinecomic Roland Young ("I think his mother was frightened by a clam"). In its time Duffy's has found similar salutes for shapely Dancer Vera Zorina ("The terpsicorpse from the ballet"), Information Please' s Clifton Fadiman ("What do you know - besides every thing?"), portly Elsa Maxwell ("Speaking of the Four Hundred, how're you and the other 398?"), and the Lone Ranger, whom Archie steadily addressed as Lone ("Lone, say hello to little Wilfred...
Died. Joe Clifton Trees, 73, millionaire oil wildcatter; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh. Drill-driving Joe Trees and his lifelong partner, Michael Late Benedum, were probably the widest-ranging, wildest wildcatters in U.S. history: they opened scores of fields from Pennsylvania to California, Oklahoma to British Columbia, made, lost, remade numerous fortunes together...