Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written a book, it says on the program, but it doesn't amount to much. The "story" is about a Staten Island flapper who wanted to marry money and did, after losing a Miss America beauty contest, visting a speak on the arm of a fated gunman, eluding a greasy gin-mill manager, falling in love with another gunman, jilting a dance-marathon winner, and double-crossing the favored trigger...
...beginning, blond, reticent Robert Hampton Gray, 27, was a student at the University of British Columbia, hoping eventually to become a physician. By 1940 he was a sublieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm. In five years he won a citation for dive-bombing attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz, a D.S.C. for sinking a Japanese destroyer. On Aug. 9, 1945, five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within...
...blow it so much it completely messed up her social life. But her real trouble wasn't her nose at all: her father & mother had always treated her as a boy and the otherwise normal young woman used her sniffles as a subterfuge to keep young men at arm's length. When she realized what was really the matter with her, her nose stopped running. And eventually she married happily...
Even Colonel Robert S. Allen, the onetime Washington columnist who lost an arm in Germany-and the most outspoken critic of present artificial limbs-was mollified last week. Colonel Allen had lunch with six other amputees, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, and Major General Paul R. Hawley of the Veterans' Administration, the man responsible for veterans' artificial limbs. Some time during the two-hour lunch, General Hawley made Allen chairman of a committee of amputees to pass on new prostheses (artificial devices), and told him to pick his own committee...
...Research on hands is not so pressing. The Miracle Hand, for instance, is excellent if properly attached to a good, lightweight arm: the fingers move separately and can pick up any thing from a toothpick to a chair...