Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German short-wave radio one night last week cooed the snide voice of a Nazi announcer, straining to be funny. "A woman correspondent, Mary Allen," he said, "has fallen into Italo-German hands. . . . She was the only representative of the Anglo-American press to attend such an unladylike affair [the British commando raid on Tobruk]. . . . Some of the correspondents who took part in the Dieppe landing returned . . . well tutored. . . . This time they sent a woman to Tobruk. As you can see, it's hardly courteous, but very American...
...eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism, our generation doubts it is dying for anything. Anderson has the courage...
About the only silver lining in the whole affair is that if someone had to be injured, the ends can afford it best. In the persons of Pete Garland and Len Cummings Coach Harlow has enough material to bolster the post left vacant by Forte's incapacity. Few other positions on the squad have as much depth as does this department...
...Robert Sterling) are ace war correspondents. Both are in love with bright-topped Paula Lane (Lana Turner), also an ace war correspondent. The trio's assignments take them from Manhattan to French Indo-China and Manila. But most of the time they are busier with their luckless love affair. Their story is mainly a set of cues for the sort of hard-boiled mating-dance at which Mr. Gable is an amiable virtuoso. In Manhattan Jonny makes love to Paula, then jilts her. In Indo-China Paula makes love to Jonny. In Manila, Paula treats Cinemactor Gable to some...
...fact that the dance was held on a Thursday night can hardly account for the small attendance, though a Friday night affair on any other but the Labor Day weekend would probably have been more profitable. Whether class integration is a valid goal under wartime conditions has not yet been conclusively proved. The way to do so is for the Freshman Committee to put forward a couple of more real efforts. Most likely to succeed would be a dance or smoker held on the night of the football game with the Navy Air Corps, on Saturday, September 26. Insufficient receipts...