Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fretting in Washington, with figures spinning in his brain like migraine spots, must have cast many a longing thought toward his 2,400 icy acres. Two thousand four hundred is a good, round, friendly number: big enough to be impressive, small enough to be comprehensible, easy to remember, subdivide, add to and even forget at bedtime. No man ever yet was hauled to a padded cell for trying to imagine what 2,400 of anything would look like, even coated with...
...scenery's great when Betty Grable, John Payne and the Canadian Rockies get together. Add a dash of technicolor and flavor with Harry James' hot trumpet and you might have something in the way of escapist fare. But "Springtime in the Rockies" barely escapes with its life after being mistreated by such cinema bogeys as lack of plot and the inability of Grable or Payne to do much more than look very much like Mr. and Miss Atlantic City...
...signs of Japanese stress & strain add up to a choice of difficult routes to Tokyo: 1) by overwhelming naval forces, bypassing the Japs' outer chains of islands and striking straight at Japan itself; 2) by air from China's waiting bases-still waiting because they cannot now be supplied; 3) island-by-island up the long ladder from the Solomons and New Guinea...
...days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages to marry the native minx and thereby snap a few more of boss Pidgeon's nerves. Carlson, Pidgeon, and Frank Morgan (the liquor soaked company doctor) deserve credit for their efforts to add a bit of plausibility to this much over rated story, but the odds are against them...
...Sophomore forwards, Frank Bixler and Dean Hennessey, will add some needed offensive power to the Varsity basketball team's starting lineup tonight when the squad hits the road again to take on a strong service five at Camp Edwards...