Word: allan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Written by 35-year-old, Canadian-born Allan Kenward, an M.G.M. director of shorts, Cry Havoc has an all-female cast, tells of volunteer nurses huddled for weeks in a bomb shelter on Bataan. Its minimum of plot deals with the Fifth-Column finaglings of one of them. But Cry Havoc does not need much plot: it points a fierce picture of driving war, provides a grim drama of doomed women...
...solid character, who always delivers when he gives his word. They know he has never had real ambitions outside The Bronx-that he loves it from the zoo (which is one of the world's five or six greatest) to the Yankee Stadium, to the Edgar Allan Poe cottage, to the National Hall of Fame (in which are no native Bronxites...
...risks and is using the same starting lineup that was so successful against the Jumbos last Saturday. But aside from Giles, Dixon and Keene, there are other men who were lights in the dark in the midweek humiliation, and thus stand an excellent chance to see action. Herb Allan and Bill Butcher, both halfbacks, and Lou Vorhaus, another forward, will be on hand to bolster the Crimson attack...
...mystery play, "Death for Dinner", written by Dorothy Sayers and adapted and directed by Allan Epstein '43, will be presented; while musical performers will monopolize the rest of the program...
With General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lieut. General Sir Allan Moreshead, Australian Commander, Churchill saw the white of El Alamein sand dunes against the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean. Bronzed South Africans, stripped to the waist, were laying mines. One South African said he came from Pretoria. "I was there," said Churchill, "before you were born." (As a captured war correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Boer...