Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost exactly one third of the College attained Dean's List standing in the fall term, according to figures released yesterday by Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28. Tje 33.2 percentage represents a slight drop form 34.7 at the same time last year...
...week's end Mamie Eisenhower's cold was better, and she was up and about; White House Physician Howard M. Snyder said her health was fine except for a slight since-childhood heart condition that at times limits her activity. The President's sniffles had cleared up; his bursitis was well enough for him to play some golf and to swim in the White House pool (which he dislikes, but does on Dr. Snyder's orders...
...royal family had done everything they could. The slight, handsome suitor had been sent off to another country. The pretty Princess had been admonished on the responsibilities of her position and her duty to the throne. The Archbishop of Canterbury had warned her that the church could not marry her to a divorced man; the Prime Minister had exhorted her to remember the sad story of her Uncle Edward. As a last resort, they had packed her off for a tour of the sunny Caribbean, urging her to have fun and think it over...
...Only a slight fault of interpretation or stiffness in acting technique separates most of the others in the cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp a thinker. Colgate Salsbury lacks the proper touch of fatuous pomposity and caricature in his version of a bumptuous farm manager. But neither man is at all bad in his role. Lee Jeffries and Patricia Leathem are good at saying their lines but have done little to improve on them...
...Walter Brennan and Dean Jagger convincingly exhibit the weaknesses which prevent either of them from acting against his criminal neighbors. A near catastrophe to the film's carefully constricted tone occurs when Anne Francis, as fresh and unnatural as a desert mirage, enters the scene. Fortunately, her role is slight and leaves no romantic blemishes...