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...producer-writer by 20th Century-Fox, and Director Richard Fleischer, 35, son of Animated Cartoon Pioneer Max (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor) Fleischer, was handed a directorial contract by Producer Stanley Kramer. For its trigger-paced suspense, their little picture is worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and Carol Reed's Night Train...
Dyer is particularly interested in concentration advice because he feels strongly that "students select fields of concentration for irrelevant reasons. They go into a field because their room-maters are in it, or because they think it prepares them for a graduate school or a profession...
...special group of judges was asked to study the scores and select works for two appealing, well-balanced programs. After three weeks, the judges (Prof. Aaron Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...
...goaded by the Card into seriously considering their next year's program. But even these students will find little point in mulling over their full schedules far in advance when there is no Preliminary Announcement of Courses of Instruction booklet to help them. It would be singularly frustrating to select four courses in the spring, only to find next fall that they conflict with each other or no longer exist...
Then a nominating committee met to select a slate of ten delegates at large. The committee was deadlocked: four for Ike, four for Taft. Ike's four, sure they had a majority on the convention floor, demanded six or seven delegates at large...