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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search went on, so many models and photographers sang Lisa's praises that her selection was a foregone conclusion. To research the story, Miss Fremd spent long hours with Lisa. She ate lunches and dinners with her (and teased Lisa because she always ordered smoked ham), rode around in her red convertible while appreciative pedestrians whistled, went swimming on a lonely Long Island beach, and even persuaded Lisa to burlesque some of her high-fashion poses (see cuts...
Ants on the Mountain. As usual, the state of war brought with it a tightening of nerves. In response to radio and telephone alarms in Indianapolis, Ind., policemen took to their squad cars in search of a black panther reputedly terrorizing their city with mournful rapacious howls. The search was called off only when the menace was identified as a mooning but amiable Newfoundland...
Radcliffe's President Jordan emphasized the need for a university's untrammeled search for truth in the face of Communism and landed the opportunities of a liberal education in an address given at the First Congregational Church in the exercises marking the formal opening of the college's seventy-first year...
...Great Feeling (Warner) is another clownish musical harnessing Jack Carson and Doris Day to the formula used in My Dream Is Yours, which they recently dragged through the neighborhood circuits. Doris is again the little girl with a big voice, in search of a still bigger career. Carson is the man to help her. His help, as usual, is mostly hindrance...
...Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others, it is a grim search through the weird subconscious levels of John Doe, a search that altogether misses heart & soul but finds a spirit crushed and shriveled by what Abner Dean considers the terrors of everyday 20th Century life...