Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter P. Brooks '59 of Eliot House and New Canaan, Conn.; Secretary, William Wertenbaker '59 of Charlottesville, Va. and Eliot House; Treasurer, Peter A. Tcherepnin '60 of Lowell House and Chicago, III. Other officers are Business Manager, Robert M. Hoen '59; Circulation Manager, Richard B. Fisher '59; Bacchus, Nicholas Wolf '60; and Art Editor, Edgar M. de Bresson...
...married-under a sky of klieg lights in Manhattan's RCA building, before a TV audience of about 3,000,000. "We have so many friends through the country," Shirl explained, "this way they can all be here." The best man called dapper, cutawayed Bernie "a worn-out wolf"; and Shirl, swathed to the neck in a white jersey Murray Hamburger original (retail price: about $275), giggled nervously. "I feel like the most rank amateur that ever got before a camera," she said. A veteran of the Sid Caesar shows. Shirl performed in fact like an old pro, even...
...latest and loudest of the film industry's frequent cries of wolf, Edwin Silverman, president of Essaness Theaters (whose chain has shrunk from 43 to 13 theaters), offered a prophecy of doom: "In my opinion, all major Hollywood studios engaged in the production of motion pictures for theaters, with the possible exception of one, will close within the next six months...
...will take good care of his theaters and play the best pictures available, keeping in mind how good they are rather than how cheaply he can get them, I am sure that he will not go out of business." Apparently just as sure, in spite of his cries of wolf, Alarmist Silverman went ahead with plans to help back a $6,000,000 Old Testament movie epic called Solomon and Sheba...
...likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses in every gimmick, it usually tosses it in twice. And it not only spells out every word, it has a resolutely meager vocabulary...