Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in the magazine '48, able Journalist Kenneth Stewart agrees that there have been "many stupid, many dull, many reactionary and many ridiculously belated awards." Among the newsmen who get prizes from Stewart and Binder (but never got Pulitzers): Heywood Broun, Raymond Clapper, Webb Miller, H. L. Mencken, A. T. Steele, Dorothy Thompson...
Sitting Pretty. Clifton Webb is waspishly amusing as the world's most versatile baby sitter (TIME, March...
Harvard battled Temple on even terms for the first three innings, before fielding and pitching suddenly fell apart. They dropped far behind their hosts until the ninth, when they batted around, combining three hits, including Webb Durant's double, four errors, and two walks for a seven-run barrage that wasn't quite enough...
...Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara), harassed by their three small boys, an outsized dog and a dearth of baby sitters, run a Help Wanted ad. Result: one Lynn Belvedere is hired sight unseen. To their dismay, Lynn turns out to be a middle-aged male (Clifton Webb), who coolly describes himself as a genius. He is also a polysyllabic practitioner of yoga, and easily the most versatile handyman since Leonardo da Vinci. Before he is done with solving problems and subjugating parents, he fries the whole community...
Sitting Pretty, which owes a war-sized debt to The Man Who Came to Dinner, will probably be the first of a series of similar Clifton Webb farces. Thanks to his chilly relish of his lines, and his generally swishy aplomb, the picture is good for many more smiles than yawns...