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Dave Cairns turned in a good performance to gain a fourth, but from there on, the Crimson were disappointing. Hal Gerry did manage to place tenth, while Emil San Soucie and Bruce Phillips finished 14th and 15th respectively. Hugh Maguire filled out the Crimson scoring in the 19th position, with Steve Sharp close behind...
Harvard will be at top strength with Captain Dave Gregory a definite threat for first place. Dave Cairns has been improving with every meet, as has the sophomore group of Hugh Maguire, Hal Gerry, Emil San Soucie, and Bruce Phillips...
Everyman's Entertainment. Burly, 33-year-old Hal Roach Jr., who got his start as an assistant director of Our Gang comedies ("I unbuttoned and buttoned their pants between scenes"), has been in command of the studio since he took over the production reins from his father in 1948. He accounts for his new success with the explanation that televiewers have even lower I.Q.s than moviegoers: "On TV, a character must be immediately self-explanatory-that's why a guy like William Bendix will be great. I'm sure The Birth of a Baby, which made...
...Hal Roach Jr. thinks that all this activity represents only the thin edge of the TV wedge. He remembers that three years ago "Hollywood looked at us on the basis that we were almost unclean." Now: "My phone rings all the time. It looks as if half of Hollywood were secretly planning to make the jump into television...
...work (only a few Collier's staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year...