Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyment, entertainment and laughter into these troubled, complex times-that World War I flying ace, Snoopy...
THREE MEN ON A HORSE is a revival of the 1935 comedy, with a cast of superb character actors playing together like an ensemble company. Jack Gilford deftly fits his long, lugubrious countenance around the part of Erwin, ace composer of Mother's Day verses for a greeting-card company. Patsy, the horse player, is played by Sam Levene, and Dorothy Loudon as Patsy's moll does a solo in her underwear that would give any choreographer something to think about...
...been said that when an ace muckraking reporter finally reaches paradise, he is greeted by the patron saint of ultimate rewards, who leads him to a chamber containing a typewriter and the files of the FBI, the records of the Internal Revenue Service, and the dossiers of all security-clearance investigations. The saint hands the newshawk the keys to the files and says...
THREE MEN ON A HORSE is a revival of the 1935 comedy, with a cast of superb character actors playing together like an ensemble company. Jack Gilford deftly fits his long, lugubrious countenance around the part of Erwin, ace composer of Mother's Day verses for a greeting-card company. Patsy, the horse player, is played by Sam Levene, and Dorothy Loudon as Patsy's moll does a solo in her underwear that would give any choreographer something to think about...
Much of the credit goes to Lieut. General Johannes Steinhoff, 56, a hardened World War II ace who shot down 176 planes over Britain, Africa, Italy and Russia and had his face badly mangled in the last of his twelve crack-ups less than a month before the German surrender. Steinhoff took over the Luftwaffe in 1966 with a mandate to "pick up the pieces" of the Starfighter scandal. He tightened organizational control, farmed out some Starfighter maintenance to private industry, which was better equipped to handle it than the Luftwaffe, and introduced more than 2,000 design and safety...