Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit to freelance, wrote popular fiction. Scholarly in tone and appearance, he is no pedant. When the Saturday Review of Literature carried a weighty article on Indiana authors some years ago, he wrote a dour reply: Indiana's greatest contribution to culture was unquestionably the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard...
...Business School graduate in 1939, Robert S. McNamara has moved up from instructor in accounting to assistant professor of Business Administration, and George F. F. Lombard '33 was promoted from instructor to assistant professor of Industrial Research...
...Charlie Chaplin's unerring instinct for social satire that first brought home to Hollywood the comic possibilities of the Nazi philosophy. "To Be Or Not To Be," with the late Carole Lombard, is much in the same vein. Like the "Dictator," it succeeds in making us laugh at the most horrifying reality of our age; like the "Dictator" it applies the vigorous technique of slapstick to the logical absurdities of Nazism; like the "Dictator" it is slightly carried away by good intentions into a lapse of maudlin didacticism, aline to the spirit of the whole...
Fortunately, the lapse in "To Be Or Not To Be" comes close to the beginning--may, in fact, have resulted from padding necessitated by Miss Lombard's untimely death--and does not substantially mar the comic effect of the film...
...Carole Lombard, Jack Benny; TIME, March...