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Davison, like the other East fullbacks, could gain nothing up the middle, and is hurt badly. Clayton and McCraney alternated at quarterback, and called plays full, but were hampered by the ineffectiveness of the fullbacks. Clayton used his pillar bootleg play well, but was equalled in that department by Fran Nagle (Nebraska), West quarterback...
Yates's Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
...Year: Faye Emerson (NBCTV and CBS-TV). Drama Show: Studio One (CBS-TV). Comedy Show: MiltonBerle (NBCTV). Musical Show: Fred Waring (CBS-TV)' Commentator: John Cameron Swayze (NBC-TV). Quiz Show: Stop the Music (ABC-TV). Sportcaster: Jimmy Powers (NBC-TV)! Children's Show: Kukla, Fran & Olli...