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...Warren R. Austin, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, Cambridge City Manager John B. Atkinson, University Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf, President of the University of North Carolina and former Army Secretary Gordon Gray, Poet Wallace Stevens '01. Ninety-year old alumnus Godfrey Cabot '82, Writer Thornton Wilder, and U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain and former President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company Walter S. Gifford...
Excerpts from Thornton Wilder's talk at the alumni exercises on Commencement afternoon appear on page 13: sections of Ralph Barton Perry's Phi Beta Kappa address, delivered on Monday of Commencement week, are printed on page...
...citation for Wilder read: "A versatile writer whose dynamic talent constructs bridges for young and old from our town to the timeless land of poets." The citation for Gifford closed with "...having enabled the American people to speak around the globe, he is now their spokesman in a distant capital...
Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing...
Producer-Director Wilder, who collaborated on the script, brutalizes these heels fully as much as the conventional Hollywood movie sentimentalizes its characters...