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...Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...
French Commander in Chief Marcel Carpentier aims to sweep Ho Chi Minh's men from the lower, heavily populated Mekong and Red River valleys. These are the best rice-producing areas and consequently the best source of rebel supply. By airlift and truck convoy, the French maintain a line of forts at the Chinese border, where aid could flow...
...Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, which has become something of a shrine for Berliners since the airlift, the U.S. staged a large, lively show including a parade of 1,000 crack troops (led by the 298th Army band and the 7868th fife & drum unit), massed Army, Navy and Air Force colors, helicopters which performed special feats of daring, an exhibition of jets and other U.S. aircraft, and (in the afternoon) a baseball game. Tempelhof field was jammed by 100,000 Berliners who had turned out with baby carriages, folding chairs and lunch boxes to see the show. Star attraction proved...
...when Hopalong insisted on his own horse, Colonel Leonard says he agreed to raise the money for Topper's airlift. Then the blow fell. "The next thing I knew there was a telegram from Cassidy saying he couldn't make it because of 'conflicting engagements.'." Unanimously backed by some 50 civic groups sponsoring the event (including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who are stuck with a medal struck for Hopalong), Colonel Leonard turned the matter over to an attorney. He gave an even more ominous indication of the public temper: "You know what my kids...