Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Division chief, G. Bernard Noble, firmly defends the impartiality and accuracy of his staff. "We don't even ask a man what his political views are when we hire him," he says. The delays in publication, he claims, are due to the tremendous amout of material which has to be correlated and the frequent need to get clearance for publication from military authorities and the governments of foreign countries. "Nothing crucial to the story is ever left out," he says...
...Students for Stevenson plan to write letters to other colleges encouraging similar movements among undergraduates all over the nation. Their purpose is "to solidify and activate the Stevenson supporters in the Harvard community," said James G. Hatcher, Jr. '56, president...
...floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...Tender Trap (M-G-M). "Wow!" says David Wayne. "What a waterhole!" David is on vacation from marriage and the Indiana Pharmaceutical Co., and Frank Sinatra's plushy New York apartment is an ideal deer park. As the fair game begins popping out in all directions, so do David's eyes. A smooth little blonde glides out of the bedroom; she promises to come back soon and bring Frank some fish. Another goldilocks jounces in the door-"to walk the dog," Frank casually explains. An Amazonian brunette, with the look of a lady wrestler in search...