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Yesterday marked the voting deadline in the election for First Class Marshall of the Twenty-fifth Reunion Class of '47. The list of nominees--all from the Class of '47--included Richard G. Kleindienst, deputy Attorney General, and Clifton R. Wharton Jr., President of Michigan State University...
Other winners of 1971 Harbison awards include Robert N. Bellah '48. University of California: Joseph M. Duffy, Notre Dame: Clifton M. Grubbs. University of Texas: and George S. Hammond, California Tech, all of whom attended Harvard graduate schools...
Untimely Clock. FAS now faces trouble from another, unlikely quarter: the teaching faculty at Famous Writers School in Westport, Conn. The faculty does not consist of Clifton Fadiman, Bruce Catton, Phyllis McGinley or the twelve other literary luminaries who for undisclosed sums have lent their names and faces to the school's familiar ads ("We're looking for people who want to write"). Rather it is made up of 38 nonfamous writers who actually handle the school's mail-order instruction. Dissatisfied with toiling in regimented obscurity, they formed Local 427 of the Office and Professional Employees...
...military chiefs were attending an NSC meeting at the White House. Unaware of this, McCaw called Air Force General Curtis LeMay's office and was directed by a confused secretary to the meeting at the White House. According to Salinger, Brigadier General Chester ("Ted") Clifton, President Kennedy's military aide, escorted McCaw to a darkened room where slides of Soviet troop concentrations were being shown. When the lights were turned on, McCaw was astonished to find the President there -and the generals were even more shocked to see McCaw. To ensure security, they considered recalling him to active...
...Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast. He retains his unique webfooted shuffle, and still sends home his jokes special delivery. But his astringent lines ("That woman is not primitive, she is feral") belong on the palate of a George Sanders or a Clifton Webb, not in a sardonic side-of-the-mouth piece. Moreover, May's improvisatory direction overindulges a slew of minor players who could be sued for nonsupport...