Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stories like this keep raising the perennial Cambridge question, "Are girls smarter?" Few Harvard students will admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where there was a girl who "couldn't even read numbers." The girls, on the other hand, explained their consistently better records by claims to sheer intellectual power...
Finally, Elias Kulukundis publishes The Gold Girl, a story which demonstrates a fine talent for telling neatly and quickly an arresting yarn. The subject of the piece the narrator, becomes involved, over the telephone, with a fantasy girl who sheds her anonymity but cannot pierce his almost inhuman exterior. Initially, the telephonic association of the pair seems implausible because it is such an appalling coincidence. Yet as she herself emerges as the subject of her own fantasy, the elements of the tale fall tidily into place, leaving the cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells...
...Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...
...rejected him. His pranks are worthy of a Tom Sawyer--but the complication lies in the fact that his brother Aaron is not a prig or toady, but a good guy too. To further complicate the situation, Alma (Julie Harris), the "Becky Sharp" of the story is Aaron's girl...