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Died. Sim T. Webb, 83, fireman for Engineer Casey Jones on his fabled (Around the curve and down the dump/ Two locomotives was a bound to jump) last run on the Illinois Central (April 30, 1900), who leaped clear on Casey's orders just before they rammed a stalled freight near Vaughn, Miss.; in Memphis...
...Tribune's John Crosby, the New York Times's Jack Gould, Hearst's Jack O'Brian-and often comes out ahead. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Bill Jahn, who runs monthly popularity polls that frequently draw more than 1,000 returns, tagged Jack (Dragnet) Webb and Lawrence ("Champagne Music") Welk as coming stars months before they received national recognition. The Los Angeles Mirror News Columnist Hal Humphrey's previews and criticism have caught on so fast that he is now syndicated to 51 other dailies. From readership surveys and the mail, editors invariably discover...
...Mark VII; Warner) is a stiff salute from TV Star Jack (Dragnet) Webb to the Marine Corps drill instructor. A raucous prowl through the barracks and across the drill fields of Parris Island, the film is not based upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...
...leatherneck maker, Sergeant Jim Moore (Webb), chews callow boys and spits marines. He shouts fear into his boots, and they shout courage back at him. His undeviating training code: if I don't almost kill you in this process, an enemy will some day make you "dead, dead, dead!" The fragile axis of the plot, a moral weakling from a Corps-dedicated family, naturally turns eventually into the pride of his platoon. Sergeant Webb surprises in the end. Just when he might be expected, for the good of the Marines, to mow down his whole motley lot of boots...
...Warren J. Plath, Linguistics and Applied Mathematics; George S. Reynolds, Social Relations; Ralph T. Rockafellar, Mathematics; Eric Rothstein, English; Charles P. Segal, Classics; Kenneth I. Shine, Biochemical Sciences; Charles P. Sifton, History and Literature; Peter N. Stearns, History; Robert J. Swartz, Philosophy; Rufus F. Walker, Jr., Physics; Julian P. Webb, Physics; David S. Wiesen, Classics; and David C. Williams, Chemistry...