Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidate who did not know what to do was New Jersey's Hague-owned Senator William H. Smathers. Hearing of the sober, dead-serious campaign waged by Republican Albert W. Hawkes (industrialist and onetime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), he hurried home, only to find Hawkes effectively belaboring him for previous absences from the Senate when important measures were at stake (Selective Service Act and its extension, declaration of war against Germany). Bill Smathers hightailed it back to Washington, then nervously returned to New Jersey for another look...
Death Comes. One morning, after a tinned-food breakfast, Constable Albert Chartrand died of a heart attack. To give him a Catholic burial, Sergeant Larsen and Constable Pat Hunt, dogmaster over the ship's twelve huskies, trekked 1,100 miles in two months to find a priest. Back with them to hold the funeral, over the vast distance where only six groups of white men had been in 110 years, came 37-year-old Father Gustav Henry of Brittany, a missionary to the Eskimos. Back, too, came scores of his converted Eskimos, to protect him from harm...
Maugham told this high-colored tale in a series of flashbacks narrated by an author (in the picture, Herbert Marshall), a doctor (Albert Bassermann) and others who knew the great man. The device worked out well enough in print. On the screen it is all but disastrous-especially since Adaptor-Director Albert Lewin has Maugham's book read, obbligato, almost word for word. The reading is excellent, but it freezes the action into little more than a set of magic-lantern slides...
Short, quiet Albert ("Putty") Reid (who piloted the famed NC4 across the Atlantic in 1919) will head the Technical Training Command. Heavy, greying Elliott Buckmaster (who skippered the carrier Yorktown to her last hours at Midway) will run the Primary Air Training Command. Stocky Alfred Montgomery probably will get the Intermediate Air Training Command. To unnamed jobs went De Witt ("Duke") Ramsey, Arthur Davis, Charles Mason and Frank Wagner (who commanded Patwing Ten in early Pacific battles...
Following Potter at a distance of about a hundred yards were two Freshmen, Charles H. Reynolds and Stephen M. Crabtree, but they were disqualified for taking the wrong course. Officially second was J. Leland Sosman '43, Dunster House football star. Sosman was followed by Albert Fullerton '44, winner of another race last year, while in fourth and fifth places were Thomas Allen, Jr., club chairman, and Leonard Weis '44, Outing Club leader. Prize ribbons were awarded to these five...