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...Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, said that the action "is certainly just a stop-gap measure to relieve the present terrific overcrowding. I have no worry at all that this would pinch-hit for another House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prescott Dorms Viewed As Temporary Solution | 9/30/1955 | See Source »

...picture, Janet Leigh and Betty Garrett play the ambitious sisters from Ohio who invade Manhattan, settle in Greenwich Village and have assorted adventures with the local bohemians, the native wolves and a large part of the Brazilian navy. Janet is decorative, particularly when she romps artlessly about her basement apartment in scanties. but Comedienne Garrett's wit is more often brash than beguiling. In general, the film is callow where it should be young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...Administrative Board is being more "lenient in considering petitions" by returning veterans and other undergraduates "with awfully good reasons" to live in apartments, in an effort to open spaces in the Houses, according to Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Masters Consider Extra House Vital | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout, as the old meanie cops his bye-bye tablets, and the hero rides off unscathed on some of the ickiest two-beat ever taped, there is room to wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea not only made his mark as a legal brain but even helped hire actors, e.g., Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In 1950 he went over to CBS and back to New York to handle CBS's real-estate program. Now ex-Medical Student O'Shea hopes to breathe new life into Hollywood's sickest studio. ¶Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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