Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Britain, Rank entered the film business to produce religious shorts. But in ten years he has become the most successful producer in England, head of the United Kingdom's biggest chain of movie theaters, and as a result of a deal made last year, exchanges films with 20th Century-Fox Film Corp...
Where Do We Go from Here? (20th Century-Fox) goes in so many directions, into so many grades and kinds of free-wheeling fooling, that it will please practically anybody some of the time and practically nobody all of the time. People who like first-rate finesse will enjoy bits of brisket from Kurt Weill's musical ribroast, the most teasing twists in Ira Gershwin's lyrics, and Alan Mowbray pretending to be Eric Blore pretending to be George Washington. People who like oafishly coy satire about on a par with summer-camp imitations of Gilbert & Sullivan will...
...announced that he was going to West Point. With the help of the popular Nebraska politician (who was to become the late great liberal Senator), George W. Norris (see BOOKS), and some stiff boning for entrance exams, Wedemeyer got there in 1917. Fifteen months later, the first of the 20th Century's world wars caused his bobtail graduation as a second lieutenant...
...lines at Saint-L6. The closing phase of the war was an armored force field day. All of them - the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th, the 8th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th, the 13th, the 14th, the 16th, and the 20th - dashed off the edges of operational maps, slashed into Germany's heart. As uppity as all armored units (they speak pityingly of "the poor goddam in fantry"), they had never forgotten that uppity, onetime armored division commander, George S. Patton, who said (with embellishments) : "You can't move...
...Ahead (Two Cities-20th Century-Fox), is a soft of dry-land equivalent of Noel Coward's famed In Which We Serve, tells with considerable force one of the real stories of modern war. The story: how a shuffling motley of unwilling conscripts, drawn from every walk of life, are transformed into proficient and brave infantrymen...