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...lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror how their lives are spent." Least effective when it is most solemn, it reaches its top levels when sardonically demonstrating what Critic Clifton Fadiman calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that The Hucksters' venom indicates a growing rebellion against the sins of advertisers. It might be what Evan Evans would call (tossing...
With just one week to go before finals, three more extracurricular organizations have reported elections for fall term executive boards. The Crimson Network led the way by naming Ray A. Goldberg '48 as president, Kenneth R. Frankl '45 as business manager, Clifton R. Wharton '47 as production manager, John A. Magnuson, Jr. '49 as program manager, and David K. Barton '48 as technical director...
Dana Andrews had the inherent intensity and toughness to be convincing as the hardboiled detective hero; Tom Neal, a good performer, has neither. In the movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...
...Peter F. Clifton '49--Mary Eldridge (Wellesley...
Fred Allen subbed for Clifton Fadiman on Information, Please, whined in a pre-broadcast warmup: "A [radio] vice president is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conferences. In radio, a conference is a meeting of a group of men who singly can do nothing, but who collectively agree that nothing can be done...