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Besides Professor Morison, the members of the expedition were: his wife Captain John W. McElroy, Herbert F. Hossmer, Jr., Richard S. Colley, Dr. Clifton W. Anderson, Kenneth R. Spear and Richard Spear...
...Committee reported out the Independent Offices Supply Bill, shrunk by over $94,000,000 from what Mr. Roosevelt warned was the lowest figure that could be attained without impairing efficiency. Declared Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia, member of the Committee: "We believe these reductions have been made . . . without seriously crippling any needed Government activity." Wielder of many an ice pack in the past, fleshy Clifton Woodrum has taken an oath, and made the rest of his sub-committee swear, not to let any bill get past the committee if its appropriation exceeds the President's budget estimate. Last...
...climax of an evening of shenanigans, Kaufman appeared made up as Woollcott, Hart as Clifton Webb (who plays the lead in Chicago), Actor John Hoysradt as Woolley..and the three sang a song. Some printable bits...
...Times at the start of the war, but this letter did not say who authored the lines, and George VI simply used them without further research. The London Times readily turned up the letter, but it was only a casual epistle from a Mrs. J. C. M. Allen, of Clifton. Bristol, who said last week that she copied the lines from a 1938 Christmas card sent her by a Miss Dorothy Glover, also of Bristol. Miss Glover said her card was based on lines scribbled by her late father, Dr. Richard Glover, on the back of a post card...
...serial novel, Men of Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct. 6, 1908. The New York Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned) will rank as one of the great novels of modern...