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Besides a bold, colorful cover by Lewis Gifford and two passable stories by Michael Arlen and Charles OsBorne, only Updike's drawing and light verse save the Lampoon from falling into the category of dull, soggy reading matter. On the other hand, Updike's Advocate sketch, his poem Famous Americans II, and five snappy drawings are really high quality material--worthy, I believe, of the Benchley, Williams Golden Age of Lampoonery...
...Hollywood, often with no more equipment than a desk, a chair and an idea. One of the eager idea-men is Marc Frederic, 40, an ex-department-store buyer who was short on cash but long on inspiration. Luckier than most, he joined forces two years ago with Gifford Phillips, an heir to the Jones & Laughlin steel fortune, who had both money and the conviction that film was going to be the biggest thing in television...
...Walter Gifford, 66, now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, former board chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Born in Salem, Mass., he is a self-made man who began as a clerk, rose to the presidency of A.T.& T. by the time he was 40. Quiet and retiring, he is a veteran of wartime posts in government consulting agencies, served as the first U.S. relief administrator under President Herbert Hoover during the depression. A Republican, he was picked with State Department concurrence. Though by inclination he avoids entertaining, he has studiously cultivated British ministers...
...team.- Undergraduates, howling gleefully in the stands, were comparing Kazmaier to players they had never seen-Tommy Harmon, Red Grange, Chris Cagle. On the record, Kaz ranks with the best of today's amateurs: Tennessee's Hank Lauricella, Illinois' Johnny Karras, Southern California's Frank Gifford. And on the record, for the second year in a row, he is an inevitable choice for All-America honors...
...Southern California's football team over California, 21-14, in the upset of the week; at Berkeley. California, ranked No. 1 in the nation, and basking in a record of three seasons without a conference defeat, led by 14-0 at the half. But U.S.C. Halfback Frank-Gifford got his team going by sprinting 69 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter, setting up another in the fourth. Now tied with Stanford in the conference standings, U.S.C. stands a good chance for a crack at the Rose Bowl. Other results: undefeated Tennessee over Alabama, 27-13; Pennsylvania over...