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Died. John Garfield, 39, tough-guy actor of stage (Golden Boy, Awake and Sing) and screen (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body and Soul); of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see CINEMA...
...seems both dated and flat. The brutalization through big-shotism and the defeat through victory of Joe Bonaparte, who becomes a prizefighter and breaks his violin-playing hands, is given a copybook patness. Joe's violent racing-car death merely adds a crude exclamation point. John Garfield's Joe, moreover, never for a moment suggests a guy with music in his heart, let alone in his fingers. As staged by Odets, the production, which co-stars Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb, does not quite come together as a whole...
Harold L. Kahn, president of the Garfield Club of Williams College announced Friday the dissolution of that organization as of January 31, 1952. The Club has served as the social functionary for undergraduates who were not rushed by the fraternities...
...move followed a resolution of December 5 of last year stating that the "Garfield Club, deploring the continual inactivity and ineffectiveness of a person or a group to rectify a social system which we consider archaic, intolerable, undemocratic, and not in accordance with the liberal tradition of Williams College,...votes that the Garfield Club will dissolve as a social unit...unless positive steps are taken to institute immediately a plan of total rushing which involves the admittance to a house for any man who so desires...
...Garfield Club has argued that the fraternities set quotas which did not include the total capacity of undergraduates that could have been accepted...