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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Afternoon Film Festival (Wed. 3 p.m., ABC). H. G. Wells's The History of Mr. Polly, with John Mills...
...years since they were first awarded, 1,478 Rhodes scholarships have gone to Americans, but only twelve of these students we,re from Roman Catholic campuses. Does that mean that the program discriminates against Catholic colleges? In the current America, Jesuit weekly, Education Editor Neil G. McCluskey makes an answer: no. In the process he makes some pertinent observations on how Rhodes scholars are born...
Into Bradley's former post as executive vice president and finance chairman goes Frederic G. Donner, 54, a G.M. financial specialist since 1926. Michigander Donner (Michigan, '23) is a trim, conservative man with a passion for figures and a reputation for precision. Staff members call him an "animated slide rule," set their watches by his arrival at work (8:34 a.m.), respect his ability to shuffle three sets of figures at once without losing track. After all the changes, the top operating spot at G.M. was still firmly held by the same man: President Harlow H. Curtice...
Died. E. (for Edmund) C. (for Clerihew) Bentley, 80. British author of the classic crime novel Trent's Last Case, rated by the late G. K. Chesterton as "the finest detective story of modern times"; in London. While still a schoolboy, Bentley invented his celebrated verse form, the clerihew. Sample...
Forbidden Planet (M-G-M). In recent years, though many a Thing has landed on the movie screen, the Space it came from has always, all too obviously, been located between a scriptwriter's ears; and the science in the fiction has generally been of a sophomore sort that gives a loud wolf-whistle at the curvature of the universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that...