Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern world, where oceans are narrow and no place is really remote, Iceland's chief claim to distinction is geographic. Squatting squarely astride the hemisphere dividing line (the 20th degree of west longitude), it is an important base for protection of Europe-bound convoys, in the postwar years will be an important aerial way station between North America and Europe...
Motor Scrapbook (Clymer Motors, $1.50). To Americans for whom an automobile is a 20th Century work of art and its evolution a nostalgic memory, Floyd Clymer's modest scrapbook is a must...
Louis Post-Dispatch, a subeditor for the Manhattan publishing house of Doubleday, Doran, and for five years (after a stint of movie writing in Hollywood) a story scout for 20th Century-Fox films...
...Biggest cinemiscarriage was Pin-Up Girl (20th Century-Fox), which Betty Grable made during the early stages of pregnancy. Cinemactress Grable plays the toast of a midland chapter of the U.S.O., becomes so amiable a Pin-Up Girl that half the war effort thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends...
...gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue eyes, fierce white hair and a mulling mind, which, when it moves, moves with the thrust of a cobra. Until time's solvent has dissolved the human slag, it will be hard to say who the great men of the 20th Century are. But Dr. Alexander Fleming is almost certainly one of them...