Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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The Republicans cried It,s time for a change. And Change, things did, but not just in government. Brockton-born Rocky Marci- ano pulled the rocking chair out from under aging Jersey Joe Walcott to become the new heavy-weight champion. Rising new comedian, Jerry Lewis, made contortion humor, both facial and vocal, popular and had most Amer- icans laughing. New shows flitted in and out of television, but one of che most eyecatching and enduring of the new programs was Jack Webb's Dnzgncff. Vocalists dominated the pop- ular music field and new favorites like boyish Eddie Fisher fand even without a crew-cut!j wowed the teenagers. All we want are the facts, ma'am.,' wr f 3 fi

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Elle Ei i AUV :lf gluing 'K FO ps se, A A MMM The party conventions and election campaigns seem to some Americans to be democracy in action, but sadly to many others they are an opportunity to whoop up excitement in a rather jumbled contest . . . on ra z1'f1rkli11g plain, Szuepf wifb C'0lIfIlSC'l1 ularnzs of sfrugglr and fligbf, Wbl'l'f ignoralzzf armies clash by night. But TV helped Americans to better understand politics and conventions, and also brought, through the televised crime hearings, Senator Estes Ke- fauver into the battle as an early candidate. Witty Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee, was the darling of the intellectuals. In this now famous photograph he showed his utter disregard for material comfort. The national conventions were as noisy and as hard- fighting as ever. Mr. Republi- can swallowed hard but re- conciled himself fbut not all his followersj to the Republi- can nominee. KE

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Hollywood, intending to lure back the audience that had been lost to little 17-inch TV screens, tried all sorts of technical tricks with pompous names like Cinemascope, panoramic vision, and stereophonic sound. The Cinerama picture did excite some of the public, but the series of 3-D films with hackneyed plots and pitiable acting only succeeded in turning theater crowds into something grotesque,