Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a quarterback throwing a forward pass and catching it himself. As Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...
...unusual quality, at least for the B-picture category. Although the villain's identity is hardly much of a secret after the first reel, dialogue, direction, and photography must place "Blind Spot" far, far above the great majority of its class--better, perhaps, than a good number that pass as first-run productions in these lean times...
...Idea? In midweek the 90-man National Commission for UNESCO met to discuss the recommendations of the 500 organizations-and pass its own recommendations up the line. This led to more concrete suggestions, if not more outright clarification. Present were such prominent folk as: Commission Chairman Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science and a younger, scholarly edition of General Ike; Assistant Secretary of State William Benton and his oldtime advertising partner, Chester Bowles; Donald M. Nelson (now of Hollywood), and Texas' witty historian Frank Dobie...
...brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest mistake." At six, he had performed his way into St. Anthony's choir, rose to be a Wise Man in the Christmas play. His first stage lines: "Myrrh is mine...
...this worrld." He is also the newest and least-developed of Fred's characters, but as Donald reads the role, it contains some winning bits of brannigan. A favorite Cassidy wheeze: having resolved to give up the stuff, he puts himself to the test by trying to pass Kerrigan's Kosy Korner without dropping in. After a desperate struggle he makes it-and promptly returns to Kerrigan's to celebrate his moral victory with a snootful...