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...Conant Webb, Jr. '49, president of Phillips Brooks House, presented a third choice which was essentially an edited version of the rules written by Frederic D. Houghteling '50 that are the subject of the current undergraduate controversy...
...Clifton Webb, Gilbreth is by means as appropriate a part as Belvedere was. Gilbreth, by nature, has certain "lovable" qualities--devotion to his family, generosity--that require of the actor as much folksy as comic skill. More than that, the comedy in Webb's previous assignments was in the person of Belvedere. But "Cheaper by the Dozen" is much more of a situational comedy, where the large family and the antiquated automobile set up the gags. Webb on the whole has far less chance to display his skill as a comedian...
Cheaper by the Dozen (20th Century-Fox] is a movie version of the bestselling based-on-fact book about life with a father of twelve in the 19205. A plotless string of mild, rambling anecdotes, with Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb miscast in the central role, it is not much more fun than leafing through somebody else's family album...
...film's failure stems mainly from a futile attempt to blend Actor Webb's amusingly smug, know-it-all characterization of Mr. Belvedere into a story intended to stir up some emotional warmth. The result is seldom comic and never moving; it leaves Webb without much material worthy of a Belvedere and the movie's would-be warmth without the kind of character that might ignite...
...largest rebuilding jobs in major-league history (TIME, Dec. 26), Billy finally had an outfield. He had given up his keystone combination of Alvin Dark and Eddie Stanky to get Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie Sam Jethroe from Brooklyn's canny Branch Rickey...