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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baseball's MVP trophy was won last season by George N. Harrington '59, an outstanding second baseman and one of the team's leading hitters. Harrington, also voted the most valuable player in basketball last season, was not present to accept the award...
...Henry N. Lamar, freshman football coach, presented the awards, substituting for varsity coach Norman W. Shepard, who was unable to attend. Lamar, quoting from Shepard's prepared speech, said that Boulris' name "will be high in the annals of Harvard baseball." Harrington was said "to possess all the qualities of Dana J.P. Wingate, for whom the award is named...
...script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries off the prize with a virile portrayal of Messala, and Hugh...
...strength of the film lies in its patchwork humor: rock 'n' roll in an air raid shelter, the Fenwickian girls waiting for the victorious American soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the immigrant English class is back, just as funny as ever...