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...produced a family of three with Grant). Instead he took the role of Frank Elgin - a has-been musical-comedy performer whom drink has crushed into pulp - in George Seaton's film of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Grace Kelly is his wife, ground down by drab devotion. William Holden is the Broadway director who wants to give him a last chance at stardom and self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Country Girl" is part hokum, part harrowing portrait of an old performer (we won't say self-portrait). Odets' form of dramaturgy is to load the dice against the Kelly character, then let her load the gun against Crosby and Holden. Crosby is the least shrill; that is part of his drunk's cunning. Frank lies in the same melodic, trombonish tone that Crosby had used to project sincerity for a quarter century. But when he's not pushing the blarney, he gives subtle glimpses of the decay that age and alcohol etches in a man. His face is fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Holden G. Karnofsky '03 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House who mercilessly attacks his political and social contemporaries with self-assured certainty and heartless criticism...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Cartoonist Announcement | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

Besides "Alexander the Great," the bomb scare interrupted the final of Economics 2010c, "Economic Theory," a graduate-level class that had been taking an exam in the adjacent Science Center C. Students there were evacuated to Holden Chapel to keep warm and await further instructions...

Author: By Adam M. Lalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scare Wreaks Scheduling Havoc | 1/19/2001 | See Source »

Besides "Alexander the Great," the only other class affected was Economics 2010c, "Economic Theory," a graduate-level class that had been taking an exam in the adjacent Science Center C. Students there were evacuated to Holden Chapel to keep warm and await further instructions...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff and Adam M. Lalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: During Exam, Man Threatens to Blow Up Science Center | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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