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...suntans and return to Britain as better attractions at the U.S. box office. Some of his artists, including Margaret Lockwood, are still on the verbal agreement basis because Hollywood is no lure to them. They prefer-out of patriotism and regard for Rank-to stay in England. Director David Lean (Great Expectations) is a case in point. After previewing the movie, a Hollywood executive wired Rank to find out how long his contract with Lean ran. Said Lean, who has no contract: "Forever...
California's American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (the "AH Line") had a new president last week. But the name was old and familiar. Lewis A. Lapham, 38, is the lean, twinkling son of San Francisco's tubby, twinkling Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15) and grandson and great-nephew of Lewis H. Lapham and George S. Dearborn. Starting with a fleet of windjammers, his grandfather and Dearborn had built A-H into the biggest U.S. intercoastal steamship line. New President Lapham knew that his job was no sinecure: "I'm being thrown off the dock...
...went on to drop the other end of a doubleheader to Adams House, 9 to 4. Elight runs in the last of the third aided Gold Coast hurler Charlie Holt to Victory. Wednesday, Leverett was more fortunate in edging Dunster, 4 to 1, behind the one-hit pitching of lean and hungry Norm Cameron, Dudley defaulted to Adams in an earlier game yesterday afternoon...
Before the war, Dudley had a semblance of a library, but it was removed to Widener during the lean years when the number of commutes, along with total enrollment, was at a low ebb. Failure to rebuild this collection has meant that Dudley's patrons receive less benefit than any other group from the University's matches library facilities. The inequality may be removed when the Lamont undergraduate library is completed at some unknown future date. Meanwhile, provision should be made so that commuters--numbering considerably more than the membership of the average House--do not continue to be poor...
...fills an even simpler prescription than its profitable predecessor, The Foxes of Harrow (which stayed triumphantly high on the best-seller lists for more than a year, was sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent...