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Last week, 23-year-old Lew Jenkins-thanks to his go-getting manager, Hymie Caplin-found himself in Madison Square Garden, challenging Lou Ambers for the world's lightweight championship. To the crowd of 14,000, the scrawny, wild-haired Texan looked more like a Broadway panhandler than a...
Though forceful acting by Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne bolsters up the play, it is actually much more sincere than skillful. It is not Sherwood's art, but the audience's apprehensiveness, that gives "There Shall Be No Night" its grim interest. During periods of world upheaval, an inspired...
But when a masterful director like Alfred Hitchcock and actors as capable as Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine do their best to make a tencent novelette plot credible, they produce an unwonted effect--that of serving cold stew on a golden platter. Hollywood's skillful technique has given a backneyed...
Artist. In the middle 19th Century, George Caleb Bingham's paintings were almost as familiar to U. S. citizens as the family Bible. But critics thought them no great shucks. Lately rediscovered after 50 years' obscurity, Bingham's shrewd, honest, skillful genre paintings now rank with the...
Led by the skillful sailing of Roger Wilcox '42, the Harvard dinghy team made the best showing of the year, when it ended up fourth in the final standing out of sixteen colleges competing for the Morss Bowl in the Basin Saturday and Sunday. Princeton took top honors with an...