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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
Self-Made Man. In Lowell, Mass., Volunteer Fireman John W. Gatham, who is paid only for actual working time, admitted drumming up business by starting 35 fires...
...discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an album of readings by the poets discussed in his book. The result: this batch of essays on modern poetry and an identically titled album (Columbia, 8 sides, $4.95; or LP, $4.85) of readings by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and other modern poets...
Telegrams and other inquires--some from Harvard groups--may result in defection or modification of the Navy loyalty oath's so-called "informer clause," Rear Admiral J. W. Roper, Chief of Naval Personnel, told the CRIMSON yesterday...