Word: allan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allan Roy Dafoe resigned as official physician of the Dionne Quintuplets. Said the man who attended their birth in 1934 and became the world's best-known country doctor: "I felt that my usefulness has come to an end." Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn commented: "It is no secret that things have not been harmonious there for some time. . . ." The Dionnes won custody of the Quintuplets last September. Added difficulty: Dr. Dafoe speaks little French, the Quints little English...
Williams entries are Bob Hendria, Jalian Hemphill, Bill Schmidt, Dave Peet, Allan Maulsby, Ban Rugg, George Nehrbas, Michael Griggs, and Ted Hunt...
...North Carolina coast the heavily laden U.S. tanker Allan Jackson swerved desperately to avoid a torpedo that broke water 150 yards short of its mark, then scored a direct hit amidships. Only 13 of the crew of 35 reportedly survived. Also off North Carolina the tanker Malay was torpedoed but limped to safety...
Remember is not exciting, but it has a casual authenticity and charm. Its reconstruction of World War I society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King...
...their paper shortage, had the civilized perspicacity to print-was E. M. Butler's Rainer Maria Rilke ($4.50), the first full-length study of a great German poet. Others were Peter Quennell's arch Byron in Italy ($3.50) and Arthur Hobson Quinn's heavy, thorough Edgar Allan Poe ($5). Garrett Mattingly's Catherine of Aragon ($3.50) and Kenneth Allott's smart Jules Verne...