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...only partly his, Michael L. (for Late, after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum amply deserved the tribute. He started in the oil business at the age of 20 with $500 in cash and a million dollars' worth of nerve. Along with the late Joe Clifton Trees, the technical brains of a lifelong partnership, he struck his first oil in West Virginia...
...find a new commandant for the U.S. Marine Corps to succeed retiring General A. A. Vandegrift, President Truman last week delved down to the eighth name on the rank list. His man: Major General Clifton B. Gates, 54, one of the Pacific war's most brilliant island-hopping campaigners, now boss of the Marine school at Quantico...
...preparatory Chicago Conference Council-sponsored delegate Douglas Cater '45 might have been elected president had he not declined the nomination for that post; Clifton R. Wharton '48 easily won the secretaryship...
Information, Please (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Clifton Fadiman and his "experts...
...reveal nothing but Bogart, it is bound to be a little anticlimactic-but not too much. Bogart knows his way perfectly around this sort of plot. He finds out who murdered his wife and his best friend (he is accused of murdering them), disposes of a petty crook (Clifton Young) who has latched onto him for blackmail, and gets set for the ultimate clinch with Miss Bacall...