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...Johnson won a Harvard Lampoon citation for the second year running. Last year he shared Worst Discovery honors with Frank Sinatra; now the Cantabrigian funnymen acclaimed his acting in Thrill of a Romance as the year's Worst Single Performance (male). Eddie Bracken was chosen Most Unamusing Comedian. Oscar Winner Joan Crawford, 38, was acclaimed Oldest Actress, with Joan Bennett, 36, getting honorable mention...
...flies around Brazilian back-country towns, terrifying the peasants. With every movement of the trees, with every blowing paper, people stand still, sure they have seen the mula. At night they hear it bray and gallop over the roofs. Until recently, the phantom mule was the only extraterrestrial thrill most Brazilians ever...
Died. Martin L. Davey, 61. who left a million-dollar tree-surgery business to become Democratic Governor of Ohio (1935-39) because "I get a thrill out of it"; of coronary thrombosis; in Kent. Ohio. His administration, marked by protracted wranglings with New Dealers over pension politics, ended in his own whopping defeat by Republican John Bricker...
Such tactics result in many photo-finishes, and Jake Cann, never resigned to them, habitually agonizes on the bench. Says he: "My greatest thrill comes when I hear the final whistle." This year, the thrills have been pleasant: 17 out of 18 final whistles have found N.Y.U. ahead...
...next year, the company will spend $201,000,000 on four new assembly plants and many new supply depots around the country. It will jack up its car-making capacity another notch to 8,000 cars a day. Before long, competitors will get another thrill. In a corner of the cavernous Rouge plant, the first handmade 1947 models have already been built. Soon the tooling up will begin. By October, the new cars will be rolling off the lines...