Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thence he moved to the University of Texas, where he taught from 1919 to 1925--a time when, according to Governor Jim Ferguson, Texas was "going hog-wild on higher education." After later teaching at Chapel Hill and Ann Arbor, Professor Jones finally came to Harvard with the Tercentenary ceremonies, in 1936. Besides shepherding 250 youngsters through English 1 this year and introducing first-year graduates to graduate study via English 185, he gives English 52 and English 70 and 170c in his special fields, Victorian Literature and American Literature since 1890. Jones thinks Harvard will get somewhere some...
...fighting fronts. They have received over 1,000 special programs which U.S. radio fans would give plenty to hear. Forty-odd shows a week are heard only by the armed forces. Command Performance gives the boys a variety show of anything they ask for (from Bing Crosby to Ann Sheridan frying a steak). G.I. (Government Issue) Jive is a steaming session of hot music. There are religious programs (Music For Sunday), adaptations of novels, plays (Front Line Theatre), classical music, sports reviews...
...Married. Ann Louise Wickard, 20, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; and Naval Ensign Jean Vincent Pickart, 23, of Gary, Ind.; in Washington...
After the Haruna battle, with Pilot Quincannon mortally wounded, two motors damaged and the Mary Ann riddled like a Swiss cheese, her crew throws her bombsight into the sea and bails out. But Gunner Winocki hangs on, brings her home to a pancake landing. Almost a wreck, the Mary Ann is ordered burned by the Army air commander. But she has one more big fight left in her. While ground troops hold off the Japs, the Mary Ann's crew patches her together in the jungle. Over the Coral Sea she joins fighters, torpedo and dive-bombers...
Hawks found some incredible stuff in the files. One stunt, authenticated by actuality: Gunner Winocki, troubled by Mary Ann's one blind spot, unceremoniously chops a hole in the ship's tail and installs a gun there. Hawks, who pilots his own plane, believes that the two most thrilling moments in flying are taking off and landing, so Air Force is full of such moments...