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...Wednesday story headlined "Harvard; U. S. Bulwark and Red Target," Griffin first extolled the University's traditional "heavy contribution to patriotic Americanism," but then singled out "idealistic intellectuals" as the "prize prey of Communist front organizations...
...astonished at the ferocity with which it is practiced in the capital. Years of rigorous competition have produced a prototype of the hardy, or winter-blooming Washington hostess. She is a widow, past 60, of ample means and ample bosom. She must have enough forwardness to fight for her prey, enough toughness to withstand the fangs of her rivals...
...life anew amid the lush estates of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Brentwood and Bel Air. He bought a shiny new Lincoln and a Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...
Every Girl Should Be Married (RKO Radio) describes the husband-hunting safari of a gawky young shop girl (Betsy Drake) who wants a husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby specialist (Cary Grant). When he tries to escape, she lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same...
...Winegard died in Philadelphia's Jewish Hospital. It was just four years to the day since he had turned down a higher-paid commercial job to work at Lankenau-to satisfy "a longstanding ambition." Diazomethane, it appeared, had damaged his lungs and made him an easy prey for pneumonia...