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Meeting on Morningside Heights this week, the trustees of Columbia University made short work of picking a successor to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. To be 14th president of Columbia they named Dr. Grayson L. Kirk, 49, the political scientist who has filled the job in all but name ever since Eisenhower became NATO's Supreme Commander 24 months...
Seldom has a large university had so little trouble finding a president with so much executive experience. Even before he was graduated from Miami University in 1924, Kirk put in a year as principal of an Ohio high school. He went to Columbia in 1940 as an associate professor of government, soon proved to be an able administrator as well as a fine teacher. By 1943 he was a full professor; in 1948 he was director of the university's European Institute, in 1949 was appointed provost and later vice president. He also found time to serve...
...Beautiful (MGM) are a gaudy assortment of film folk in a movie about the movies. There is a ruthless Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), who is bad; an alcoholic actress (Lana Turner), who is beautiful; a hard-working director (Barry Sullivan) and a Pulitzer Prizewinning author (Dick Powell), who are neither bad nor beautiful...
...Beautiful (M-G-M), a story about a Hollywood producer, with Candidates Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner...
Between bouts, Bowie is pictured as a gay blade with the girls. He dallies with scheming Creole Belle Virginia Mayo. But in the end he spurns her with an admonition ("No woman is worth the lives of eight men"), and goes off with beautiful, gentle Phyllis Kirk, daughter of the vice-governor of Texas. Bird fanciers may be interested to note that the picture depicts noted Ornithologist James Audubon (George Voskovec) as one of Bowie's conversational sparring partners...