Word: agar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scent of grease paint proves much stronger than the smell of cordite. All the fog of war cannot hide the writing and acting shortcomings in the characters of the picture's command-weary captain (David Brian) and his young platoon leader (John Agar). Unlike Battleground, which it most resembles, Breakthrough makes no bones about recruiting its soldiers from Central Casting and assigning them to spell the carnage with a few vaudeville turns. One infantryman is a vaudevillian who does imitations of movie stars; another is a musclebound health faddist whose casual rejection of a man-eating mademoiselle...
...could claim to be a close rival of Johnny's. Moreover, Billy represented the modern set, and was rated, according to one arbiter of London society, an "amusing, smart, gay companion with American connections" (after his father's death in 1941, his mother married American Journalist Herbert Agar). Gossips felt that Billy might appeal more to Margaret's volatile character than "quiet and friendly" Dalkeith, who is bored by nightclubs...
...voters they most needed to win. The Democrats knew by heart one simple axiom: a political party should be like a Bowery mission-"everybody welcome." The hard-core Republicans gave the impression of having lost faith in their country. Writing in the current Harper's, liberal Historian Herbert Agar, who calls himself "a potential Republican voter," warned that the voters would never warm to a party that acted like "a sour-faced governess . . . Too many important Republicans now seem to regard the people as dupes who have been suborned by tax money...
Many drastic lineup changes have taken place since last year's won eight-lost ten squad. The team's outstanding one-two punch, Agar and Bullard, has graduated. Charlie Ames and Jay Robb, who played numbers three and six respectively, also saw their final season last spring. Out of the first six singles and doubles players, only one doubles and two singles players returned...
...Agar's illuminating study ends with the true journalist's application of is text to the immediate situation: he suggests that a modern world torn by conflicting ideologies and seeking a compromise "might do worse than study the curious methods by which such assuagements are effected" in the marvelous history of the American republic...