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Back in the U.S. after three months in Europe as a self-styled "celluloid diplomat," Actor Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb filed a tart report: "From what I have seen, the only country in the world today that is safe from Communism is Russia...
Punchy Prose. Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman thought that an impressive-and depressing-fact about the past 25 years was the decline in reader "attention." Readers refused to read anything except "the shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...
...Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...