Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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Oh no, whass thees, Lucee? Another of the new and popular TV shows was I Love Lucy. Television particularly fit the styles of entertainers like songster Johnny Ray, who overnight cried his way to fame. The new medium grew rapidly more attractive in the early fifties, and like a vain and jealous mother, seeing her pretty andgrowing daughter steal- ing the whistles, Hollywood primped herself and announced that movies were better than ever. And some of them were. The adaptation of Tennessee William's 1947 Broadway hit, A Streeicar Named Desire, was powerful fbut not at the box-officej and gave Vivien Leigh an Oscar and Marlon Brando his first big chance to growl. In An Americana in Paris Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron had rhythm and along with im- aginative designing and a delightful Gershwin score built a stairway to the best-picture-of- 1951 Oscar, the first for a musical.

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Homes had to be furnished. Chairs, like the butterfly-type below in which Julie Harris is seated, reflect the striving for that compromise between casual comfort and modernistic styling. Korea created no butter lines or ration stamps, Americans were as ma- terially well-off as ever. And as as- sembly lines gushed television sets, people used their leisure viewing such new TV personalities as dynamic Bis- hop Fulton Sheen, who soon eclipsed Uncle Miltief' On the homefront, life was going on as usual, as this scene of some people waiting for a bus on a Pittsburgh corner depicts. The Korean conflict, which General Omar Brad- ley called the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy, was having difficulty find- ing space in the nation's newspapers. Amer- icais mind was busy elsewhere. One of the cleanest diversions was the chlorophyll craze, soon everything from toothpaste to dog food had the green stuff in it. IHIURUPHHllllxlliizii it ...uve -'31 . Ui-P':,1..i...1' 'Iva 'mmm -,M

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In Washingtoii outspoken Harry Truman was serving his last term as President, and his administration was busy fighting all sorts of scandal charges. Here he is shown with Eisen- hower, who was only a general then. Across the seas dogged Winston Churchill defeated the Laborites, and to most Americans England was now herself again. A79 .ll . Vi -fn I' But what really excited Americans, next of course to Li'l Abner's and Daisey Mae's marriage, was che courage of Captain Henrik Carlson who spent six lonely days in .Ian- uary, 1952, on his sinking ship, the Flying E1z1fc'rj1risi'.