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Director Jules (The Naked City) Dassin's staging and Franz Waxman's overwrought musical score try to outdo each other in stridency. Aging (seventyish) Wrestler Zbyszko is natural and dignified in his acting debut, and Actor Widmark turns the neat trick of working up some sympathy for an unsavory character...
Cornell's newest professor is seventyish, trim, and as peppery as ever. She fondly refers to a friend or an associate as "old buzzard." Exacting to a fault, Dr. L'Esperance sees things beginning to go her way. Since 1946, juniors from Cornell's Department of Preventive Medicine have had to take a session at the Memorial's Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic. This summer, the clinic at Memorial will get its first internes. Doctors who get this training, Dr. L'Esperance hopefully believes, may yet be able to prevent many a cancer by catching...
...nearly 14 years, Scoopy, a tiger-striped torn, had made his home and office in an In box on the desk of Publisher Isabel Bryan, a seventyish spinster, in the cluttered basement office of the Villager. Scoopy's byline and photograph had graced a widely read column of jottings and musings ("Scoopy Mewses") on the editorial page. Artists painted Scoopy's portrait, photographers snapped him, the Christian Science Monitor sang his praises...
Musicomedienne Mistinguett, seventyish, whose shapely legs are an ancient Paris legend, was planning a tour of Canada this fall, and took a trouper's view of the project: "How long I stay depends on my success...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...