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That afternoon the M.P.s re-elected their Speaker, Colonel Clifton Brown. He sat quietly on his bench awaiting the traditional byplay. Without a word, the Clerk of the House signaled to Laborite David Kirkwood. In a warmhearted speech, Socialist Kirkwood proposed Tory Brown as Speaker...
...guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...
...trimming one hour from their children's daily televiewing, parents in Clifton, N.J. last week received thank-you notes from Charles M. Sheehan, elementary-school principal. Sheehan had protested two months ago that TV was interfering with homework (TIME, Dec. 19). Now he reported happily that failures in one class had been reduced from...
This Is Show Business (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Panel with George S. Kaufman, Clifton Fadiman and Abe Burrows. Guest: June Havoc...
Cinemactor Clifton ("Mr. Belvedere") Webb, 56, a confirmed bachelor, reflected gloomily on his trials & tribulations during the shooting of Cheaper by the Dozen, in which he plays the father of twelve children: "I was a strict disciplinarian. I have a glare that makes children most obedient. I may not be a family man, but I am an actor. I hope the mothers of America will soon show me some mercy. Ever since I dumped the bowl of oatmeal on Roddy McCaskill in Sitting Pretty, I have been called on for assistance in rearing the bubble-gum youth of this nation...