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Meet Mr. McNutley (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS). Academy Award Winner Ray (The Lost Weekend) Milland as the absent-minded professor at a women's college. The characterizations are trite, and most of the action is warmed-over slapstick. Milland's fine talent for light comedy is pretty well smothered. (Sponsor: General Electric...
Back in the U.S., McElroy got his first big chance in P. & G.'s advertising department. His boss, tending a sick wife, was often absent, so it was up to McElroy to run things. Says he: "It was the kind of a situation bound to lead to the hothouse development of a man-or break him completely." Gradually McElroy's ability caught the eye of P. & G.'s longtime President Richard R. Deupree...
...with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily free of both Benton's swagger...
...drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular that he can almost be said...
...with a gold pen set with diamonds and emeralds she signed the shortest law in Brazil's history. It read: "As of this date, slavery in Brazil is declared extinct." It was a great triumph for the plump, fair-haired young princess, then acting as regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration, but the princess' ousted prime minister sardonically predicted: "She has freed a people...