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Starlift (Warner) was Hollywood's ill-starred project of ferrying troupes of movie performers to Travis Air Base, north of San Francisco, to entertain replacements bound for Korea and wounded veterans on their way back to U.S. hospitals. That venture now supplies a backdrop for a spotty variety show, loosely glued together by the romance of a Hollywood star (Janice Rule) and an Air Force corporal (Ron Hagerthy) from her home town...
Debating is not a spectacle (as a flea circus or a cock-fight is). It is an exercise in articulative facility and quick wit. It is intended to entertain no one except the participants. The relation you find between lack of spectators and last week's double loss to Yale is beyond the grasp of all natural intellects...
...kind of finishing school for wives. "As soon as the husband reaches the $8,000-to-$10,000 bracket, his wife becomes eligible, for grooming." A vice president's wife takes her in hand, shows her where to shop, eat, vacation and how to dress and entertain...
This flourishing new show business grew out of the possibilities that a bright young agent named Paul Gregory, now 30, spotted three years ago in Actor Laughton's talent for reading classics aloud. Laughton had started doing it to entertain troops in hospitals during World War II; Gregory thought it would also appeal to paying audiences. Against the advice of another Hollywood agent ("Most people can read nowadays-who needs it?"), Gregory mortgaged his car to book a concert-like tour called An Armful of Books. Laughton's readings from the Bible and Shakespeare on through James Thurber...
...proposal of the Council and the House Committees was presented for practical, not moral reasons, and it deserved a practical answer. It did not get one. Concerning the very real problem of how students with limited incomes are to entertain dates on weekend evenings without spending a great deal of money or sitting in a beer parlor that probably does not "help to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct," Dean Bender's letter said: "We feel (this) problem is a real one and we hope that the Council will now work energetically with the Housemasters and House Committees...