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...Calvin E. Boe, Robert R. Boot, Arling D. Brown, Jr., Marshall E. Carroll, Jonathan Dean, Wakefield Dort, Jr., George A. Economon, Harold C. Fleming, George William French III, Thomas H. Green, Donald E. Greenholz, Richard P. Hall, Thomas C. Hall, George A. Hibbard, Frederick J. Hillman, William J. Houston, Clifton M. Howard, Jr., John C. Hulley, Arthur M. Johnson, Loring J. Larson, Edmond J. LeMoal, Gerald Lenane, Paul E. Marsh...
...Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. No mere anything-for-a-laugh letterhead organization, the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. takes itself fairly seriously. Heart and founder of the organization is its Permanent Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, bland, round-faced Tulsa oilman Owen Clifton ("O. C.") Cash. Long addicted to informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights not in some way supervised or directed...
...quizzes entertaining adult stuff. Questions flung at the tiny intelligentsia were selected by TIME'S Chicago News Bureau chief, Sidney James, who was interlocutor for the Quiz Kids until NBC deposed him on the ground that his magazine connection made him too much of a rival for Clifton Fadiman...
Bitterly Virginia's Clifton Woodrum strove, recalled economy pledges, shouted: "How are you going to pay the bill. Are you going to have a tax bill [the House shuddered], or are you going to raise the debt limit and borrow the money? You know as well as I know that the Congress has no idea of doing either one . . . at this session...
...buskin for The Man Who Came to Dinner? (TIME, Feb. 19.) Here in Chicago Clifton Webb pulled on the sock, a happier choice. Perhaps the late Town Crier should have thrice refused the part...