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Brigadier General John Conklin, from Tokyo, directs a Survey Group which General MacArthur has sent to Formosa to study the military needs of the Nationalists. Major General Howard Turner, commander of Clark Field in the Philippines, flies in & out, and every few days U.S. jet fighters from Clark and Okinawa fly over the island...
...Patty Conklin's "Mile of Merriment" Midway, they saw Terrell Jacobs' circus and Joe LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...
Charles R. Conklin '48, originally named a delegate, will be unable to attend because of final exams here. One of the alternates will be designated to act in his place...
...missteps as a stage neophyte are good for laughs, and there are some funny scenes about moviemaking, in which she is stoutly abetted by William Demarest as a director, by Constance Collier as a high-nosed old ham actress, and by such old masters of journeyman slapstick as Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard. There is some faint hint of the toughness of the people who made the old movies, and a fair suggestion of the way they did their work, like children making up games as they went along...
Rice is currently serving as Massachusetts Regional Vice-Chairman of NSO, and is also the newly-elected executive secretary of the local chapter of the American Veterans Committee. The graduate representatives will complement the College delegation of Charles R. Conklin '48, Francis D. Fisher '47, and Selig S. Harrison...