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...Races. Last week, Donald Gibson, 50, looking like a puffy Clifton Webb, sat in a Bridgeport courtroom charged with manslaughter by negligence in the death of Lizzie Ayres. The state knew that it had a weak case, but the witnesses paraded to the stand and told amazing stories...
...Legions of Merit and a fourth Purple Heart. Postwar: Spent four years as C.O., first at the Amphibious Training School at Little Creek, Va., then at the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. In 1947 was called to Washington, in line for the job of Commandant with his friend, Clifton Gates. Gates, also the possessor of a topflight record, got the four stars on seniority. Shepherd, said the President, would have another crack at it. Shepherd became boss of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific in June 1950. Old-line Marine officers consider him a "schools" man, versatile, able...
...Belvedere Rings the Bell (20th Century-Fox) keeps the Clifton Webb series alive, but only at the cost of sabotaging its leading character and committing mayhem on the 1948 Broadway success, The Silver Whistle. This time, the acid, all-knowing Webb is uncomfortably fitted out with a heart of gold, while Robert McEnroe's comedy, on which the movie is based, loses most of its puckish spirit...
...special assistant," feeds the press a constant flow of "don't-quote-me" background information or "leaks" calculated to prove that 1) the official is wonderful, 2) his opponents are not to be trusted and 3) all is well in Government. For example, Lieut. Colonel Ted Clifton, special aide to General Omar Bradley, is known as "Bradley's leak," Paul Duncan as Price Boss Mike Di Salle...
...others, it has a relaxed tempo, some briskly intelligent repartee, and gives the impression that the participants are actually enjoying themselves. As moderator, Northwestern University's Dr. Bergen (The Natural History of Nonsense) Evans handles his four-man panel of experts with the assurance of a high-voiced Clifton Fadiman...