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Susskind is no shy credit-taker himself. He speaks of the three movies produced with his money--Edge of the City, Raisin in the Sun, and Requiem for a Heavyweight-- as "my pictures." And he regards the art of television as something akin to artistic portraiture. "That Brando interview," he said of an Open End show which will soon run in Boston, "was a really masterful portrait of a human being...
...last week said a noted pulse taker of U.S. campus life, President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, before a meeting of U.S. state-university presidents in Washington, D.C. How to preserve small-unit living on big campuses is the problem, says Critic Eddy. The "three, four-and sometimes ten-story hotel which often serves as a dormitory" is no solution. But neither is preservation of fraternities: "Time has run out for the national fraternity system. It has failed to adapt itself to the demands of the new student and to a changing social pattern...
...wondrously confusing that a couple of upperclassmen peddling "a used dollar for 75?" worked their way down a long line of waiting freshmen before they got one taker. There was too much...
...sighted in on polltakers and poll-taker-type columnists with similar resourcefulness and effect...
...around years of marriage, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr. (age, 62; weight, 180) filed suit for divorce from Gregg Sherwood Dodge (age. 38; weight. 130), charging that she kicked and slapped him to the point that he feared "for his safety and existence." Her answer was a double-taker: "He's afraid of me physically? I can hardly lift him off the floor...