Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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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,

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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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But cinemaland's best and most popular pictures were still the traditional flats.', On the left is a scene from the African Qucciz with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, who received an Oscar for his role. High Noon, starring Gary Cooper, tick- tocked its Way to the top while its plaintive background ballad instantly became a pop- ular hit song. Sentimentality for director Cecil B. de Mille, plus the biggest box-office gross since Gone Wifb Ibn' Wfiml Qand not much elsej , netted the best picture Oscar for the circus extravaganza, The Grmfesf Show O11 Earib. Below are pictured Betty Hutton, James Stewart, and some one of the other clowns in the film. Paper-bound pocket books like those of Mickey Spillane were phenomenally successful, nearly 250 million copies being sold in the year 1952. But they were not all crime stories with lewd coversg even the Dialogues of Plato sold nearly 150,000 copies. In the hard-cover field two of the best-selling novels were the war stories, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, and From Here to Eicfrnify by James Jones. And Americans with eager curiosity discovered just how unfaithful their mates might be in Kinseyls Sexuzll Bvbiwior of Ibn' Hzmmn Fcfnmlcf.