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...story of criminal investigation could be factual, instructive and entertaining. Webb has apparently achieved one of these objectives, that of entertainment in a low key (dum du...
...gates of the huge (60,000 students) Sorbonne one morning last month, big yellow posters suddenly appeared for all Paris to see: CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUNDS. That same day, teachers and students went out on strike, milled about the streets, blocked traffic, demonstrated in front of the Bourse du Travail. The Sorbonne, however, was not demonstrating alone. Virtually every lycée (secondary school) and university in France had also closed down...
...show's top rating, however, is an inadequate gauge of the spell which Webb has cast over the U.S. people, both young and old. There is hardly a child above the age of four who does not know and constantly voice the brassy notes (dum du dum dum) of Dragnet's theme music. Phonograph records (St. George & the Dragonet, Little Blue Riding Hood, Christmas Dragnet) which parody Dragnet's terse, low-keyed dialogue have sold 1,326,000 copies, and Sergeant Friday's calm "All we want are the facts, ma'am" has become...
...theater. After graduation from drama school (with a first prize), he joined the famed Comedie-null soon left the formal atmosphere to become, at 26, Paris' youngest theatrical director. Stressing dazzle in his productions, he brought Paris such musical shows as Show Boat, New Moon and, lately, Annie du Far-West...
...committee that recommended Miss Du Bois for the Professorship was under the chairmanship of President Katherine E. McBride of Bryan Mawr College, and included Radcliffe and Harvard scholars in all major academic fields...