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...Bronx, the Navy notified Louise Clifton of her husband's death. She went to bed sobbing. Then a good German neighbor (a Mrs. Goering) advised her to eat a herring on New Year's Eve, make a wish. Louise did. At midnight a messenger boy knocked at her door. It was all a mistake: Coxswain Clarence Calvin Clifton is still alive...
Keep 'em Rolling had a big-name debut. Its theme ditty, composed for the occasion by Rodgers & Hart, came bugle-like from the lips of musical comedy's forceful Ethel Merman. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman (with a cute script) kept the program rolling. He discussed the spider situation with a Cleveland professor who has made a specialty of extracting spider silk direct from the producer for cross hairs in range finders. He introduced, as "the nation's No. 1 No man," Priorities Chief Donald M. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson told the nation why. For drama, Maurice...
...last precipice over which Blithe Spirit might have toppled is skirted too: the production is delightful, with a trio of actresses nosing out suave Clifton Webb to reap most of the glory. Graceful English Leonora Corbett romps amusingly as the twitting first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...
Donald B. Hackel '43, Milton W. Hamolsky '43, Edward I. Handler '42, Frederick J. Harrigan '42, John M. Harrington Jr. '43, Edmund J. Harris '42, Kenneth B. Henry '44, Thomas T. Hoffman '44, John W. Holmes '43, Robert B. Houghton '42, Clifton M. Howard Jr. '44 John C. L. Hulley '44, Richard J. Hyman...
...years the "great American novel" has been the great unattainable of our native cultural scene. Periodically Hemingway of Steinbeck or another of the leading story-tellers contrives something that looks like it to the publisher, but Clifton Fadiman and the other gentlemen who seem to have the last word in the matter can always find something missing--that last straw of greatness which would break down their resistance and start the dancing in the literary lanes and book fairs of the nation. But though "Grapes" and "Bell" both came close to forcing reluctant admissions of their right to the fabulous...