Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film series, a registration drive and a membership drive within the College walls. Radio debates on WHRV and elsewhere and joint meetings with the newly-chartered Radcliffe SDA round out the schedule...
...Arthur Rank, having cornered all the movie rights to the XIV Olympiad, has produced a fine film of the games at St. Moritz and London, as complete as general interest and one sitting will stand, well-edited and photographed in excellent technicolor...
High points of the Games are the high points of the film: The amazing four-victory running of Fanny Blanyers-Koen of Holland, the high-speed excitement of ski jumpers and bobsledders, the gruelling ordeal of the marathon, the complete mastery of corn-fed American track and field stars. Periodic shots of the crowds at Wembly Stadium have been chosen with taste and occasional wit, and the overall effect is pleasantly spectacular. The parts of the narration handled by Ted Husing and Bill Stern are not up to the work of several English commentators; but they are at least competent...
...mysteries in the fraternity system, none is more inexplicable than the complete disappearance of the fraternity man . . . after his graduation from college. No managing editor was ever heard to say, even in a Hollywood film : 'Lead the paper with Himmelfarber's story-he's a Sigma Sigma from the Wingding School of Mines! I understand the Tau Taus were after him too.' And . . . who ever heard of a fraternity man, even with distress signals flying, beating out a son-in-law for a fat job in the family business...
Rachel and the Stranger (RKO Radio) has been rushed into the theaters ahead of schedule because RKO hoped to cash in on Robert Mitchum's sudden notoriety. No one had a right to expect the movie would be much good, but it is. The first Mitchum film out since his arrest for smoking marijuana (TIME, Sept. 13), it turns out to be a pretty entertaining comedy-drama...