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...mouth, hands-in-pocket, U.S. lieutenant. His stooge, who portrays a full colonel, urges him to try to understand the English better and show more cooperation. The house comes down when the C.O. suggests to Field: "You might even give the British an occasional salute." Aghast, Field mutters: "Ah, no, Colonel, not that...
...blonde eyebrow, grins, and replies, "I use my sex.;' When, against Universal's better judgment, she became a Universal producer, the studio sent around a photographer to immortalize the event. "Well," snapped Miss Harrison, "do you want some leg art?" (see cut). Besides using a pair of ah-inspiring legs, she also uses a mind trained at the Sorbonne, at Oxford, and by England's shrewdest director...
...voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor. As he trudged up the aisle to his seat, with the conscious humility...
...delivery he grunts ("and-ah"), gropes for the next phrase, glares at his notes (if he is using them at all), peers pugnaciously over his big-rimmed spectacles, often (if he is not holding notes) thumbs his lapels. He rarely smiles; when he is amused the usual sign is a conspiratorial twinkling of his eyes. Usually, it is only after he is done that there can be an accurate written version. Whether heard or read, that version usually is a work of statesman...
...returned to the U.S. with 50,000 ft. of film, campaign ribbons, and the Air Medal (for five combat missions). But his anonymity was gone. When the War Department arranged a press conference, stenographers lined Pentagon Building corridors six deep to watch him walk by. They chattered and oh-ah'd: "He's marvelous . . . isn't he smooth...