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With a solecism worthy of Sam ("Include me out") Goldwyn, Harvard's Dean of Admissions Fred Glimp reports that high school seniors this year are "selecting themselves out" of the competition to get into the nation's best college. In un-reverse English, this means a surprising drop in applications. The decline applies throughout the Ivy League-last thing the Ivy weeders expected...
...Friars Club of Hollywood gave a testimonial party for Gary Cooper, had everyone from Sam Goldwyn to Dean Martin and California Governor Pat Brown on hand to participate in the big salaam. Those who tried to stick to the subject very nearly drowned him in glue. "A Gary Cooper is rare, there is only one," recited Poet Audrey Hepburn, "and there will never be another under the sun." Milton Berle risked a hail of hot lead by saying: "Coop got his first Green Stamps from Polly Adler." Carl Sandburg announced that he and Sinatra had founded an organization in Cooper...
Where the Boys Are (Euterpe; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is one of those pictures every intelligent moviegoer will loathe himself for liking-a corny, phony, raucous outburst of fraternity humor, sorority sex talk and housemother homilies that nevertheless warms two hours of winter with a travel-poster tanorama of fresh young faces, firm young bodies and good old Florida sunshine...
...letters took up matters of such moment. John Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote in praise of the campaign efforts of Democratic National Committee Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; Brother Bobby Kennedy had words of praise for California's nonpolitical Community Service Organization for getting out the Spanish-speaking vote. Sam Goldwyn, Gore Vidal, Jack Paar and William Saroyan all ticked off TIME on matters of personal privilege. Last month eight writers and critics (James Baldwin, Jason Epstein, Lillian Hellman, Alfred Kazin, Robert Lowell, Norman Podhoretz, Lionel Trilling, William Phillips) collaborated in a letter in defense of the literary reputation of Fellow Writer...
...years Gable floated among minor theatrical jobs, then caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. There was just one problem-those ears. Milton Berle would later describe them as "the best ears of our lives," but Warner Bros, had already decided that they made young Gable unfit for the screen. M-G-M simply pinned back the Gable flappers with adhesive tape, and cast him in The Painted Desert. As Gable rose toward his coronation as The King-a ceremony actually performed in 1937 by Spencer Tracy with a cardboard crown-he shed the tape...