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...years Philosopher Gross was the house expert against whom contestants on the now defunct TV show, Two for the Money, gambled with their answers. Gross decided onstage, and without a chance to crib from reference books, whether the answers were correct, seldom had to back down. An extramural job that comes closer to the complexity of his new one: his chairmanship, since...
Died. Sir John Collings Squire, 74, British poet, critic, parodist, founder and editor (1919-34) of the now defunct London Mercury magazine; near Heathfield, England. Squire's Mercury was an outlet for the work of such Squire friends as Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon. listed among its contributors Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, G. K. Chesterton. But the magazine ran onto financial reefs, disappointing Squire, who once wrote...
Stand the Pain. After three years with Updyke on radio. Backus fell into a fat part as the judge on TV's now-defunct I Married Joan comedy series, whose reruns are still "in orbit." Discovered at last, Backus made 47 feature movies (best role: James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause). But Backus ("always too early or too late'') began his movie career at the start of Hollywood's slump. He often suspects that papa was right. Once that businesslike gentleman from Cleveland sniffed scornfully around the movie lots, pronounced one studio...
...first Radcliffe undergraduate publication appeared in 1898, nineteen years after the Annex was founded. Since then there have been sixteen attempts to start magazines or newspapers at Radcliffe, of which the most recent is Percussion, replacing the defunct Radcliffe News...
After seven weeks of investigating charges against Twenty One, a New York County grand jury last week brought in its first indictment. Arrested on a two-count perjury charge: Producer Albert Freedman, 36, employed since 1956 by Emcee Jack Barry and Dan Enright, creators of the defunct show that once rated No. 1 in the nation, Said the indictment: Freedman "knowingly lied" when he told the grand jury that he had not fed contestants questions and answers, since "he had in fact done so." Insisted Freedman, who faces a maximum of ten years in prison and $10,000 fine...