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...Press, has held down the job, and his heavily censored stories have often sounded more like Red propaganda than news. Last week Salisbury, who has been asking to be relieved, prepared to come home. The Times announced that he will be replaced, probably in September, by German Bureau Chief Clifton Daniel...
From a crumbling French trench, 2nd Lieut. Clifton Bledsoe Gates reported, during 1918's battle of Soissons: "I have only two men left out of my company and 20 out of other companies. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here, as we are swept by machine-gun fire and a constant artillery barrage is upon us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." He was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and by a shell fragment in the knee; most...
...Clifton Fadiman and guests...
...hands. Pretty soon he'll feel like his arms are 16 feet long. He'll fall apart trying to put them somewhere. You have to know what to do with your hands. All these things-you get to do them instinctively. I admire good actors -Spencer Tracy, Clifton Webb, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Widmark-they're good...
...Century-Fox) is another CinemaScope travelogue-this time making a wide-screen tour through Italy. Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...