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...three largest producers of documentary films for television are NBC, CBS and David Wolper. At 34, Wolper is the youngest, and often the most vigorous, of the three. His offices on Hollywood's Sunset Strip have grown in the past 42 months from a five-man luck-it shop to a 200-employee corporation with bright white neo-Palladian faqade and 40 cutting rooms-some of which are already crammed with the 8,000,000 ft. of film that Wolper is condensing into The Making of the President 1960, a two-part version of Teddy White's admiring...
...secret of all these capital gains is not something magically creative in David Wolper's particular genius, but rather a thoroughgoing capacity for careful research and intelligent selection that has resulted in some of the better moments of television. Excellent fiction may be the highest matter that TV can offer, but so much TV fiction is so blatantly phony that a crisply edited set of authentic film clips about anything from a war to a horse race somehow seems stunningly original...
They are Susan Bittel of New York City; Motoko Fujishiro of Tokyo; Gertrude Jameson of Morristown. New Jersey; Barbara (Newman) Kravitz of Brooklyn; Mary Alice McArdle of Cambridge; and Nancy Wolper of Brookline...
...appointments to committee chairmanships, pending acceptance, are: orientation, Jean O'Brien '51; publicity, Nancy Wolper '52, commuters, and Helen Kornfold '52, dorms; dorm-commuter, Barbara Pitts '52, commuters, and Judith Grose '52, dorms; appointment bureau, Margaret MacTavish '51; community service, Jane Larsen '52 and Ruth Mann '51, assistant; social, Baila Cobon '51; library, Eilon Fass '51; curricular, Carol Smith '51; Agassiz, Alice Walsh '52; and health center, Ellen Newman...
Follow the Girls (book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis; lyrics & music by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal and Phil Charig; produced by Dave Wolper) has a number of virtues and two faults-its music and its book. Since the two mean hardly less to musicomedy than mountains and lakes mean to Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie...