Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...Broadway, Paul Kelly played the General with amazing conviction. Clark Gable, who runs things in the movie, simply wrinkles his forehead and looks sincere. The rest of the cast, and there is a lot of it, wears immaculate uniforms and strides stiffly through Hollywood-brand operations rooms. Only Van Johnson, amazingly enough, who has a set-up part as the General's cynical aide, can touch the acting of the stage version. The play's wonderful single set has been augmented with shots of model B-17s plowing into picturesque English landscape; when the command decision is finally made...
...only thing holding up immediate work on the production is completion of the musical accompaniment, now being written by Nicholas Van Slyck, a local composer-teacher, and tutee of Serge Koussevitsky. It should be ready in the near future...
Criswold gained recent fame when he chaired the Governor's Committee which exonerated Dr. Miriam Van Waters...
...van Wyck Mason II '51 will serve as defense counsel, and H. Richard Uviller '51 will be prosecutor...