Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a reversion to the policy the U.S. had followed in the days of the Barbary corsairs, and a complete reversal of 20th Century peacetime practice, when U.S. naval forces had made only occasional cruises and courtesy calls in the Mediterranean. To avoid the need for billeting sailors ashore, the Navy decided to rotate its Mediterranean units twice a year...
...Anna and the King of Siam (20th Century-Fox) and Caesar and Cleopatra (United Artists...
...Dark Wood, which ran as a serial in the Ladies Home Journal, will bring her a lot more profit, but little prestige. The Literary Guild and Publisher Scribner have made a first printing of 825,000 copies, and 20th Century-Fox (which paid $210,000 for the story) is already at work on the movie version. The twin themes of The Dark Wood are timely: 1) What does a soldier do when he comes home from war and finds his wife has left him for another man? 2) What does a war widow do to erase the memory...
...answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with the difference that their faces seem always to turn, like flowers to the sun, toward the klieg lights of Hollywood...
...heir to all civilization and all smooth-running modern gadgets, the 20th Century citizen, goes to strange places in pursuit of happiness and self-improvement. Every year he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on fortune tellers, medical quacks, "lovelorn experts" of press and radio, palmists, mail-order muscle builders, numerologists, diet faddists, nerve pills, perfumed unguents...