Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stays & Armor...
...husbands refuse to plunk down their hard-earned dollars for these backdated, repelling suits of armor, I'm sure the money-mad creators of fashion will once again create as we desire. I for one could not stand to see my lovely little wife turning blue as she gasped for air in a laced vise, nor would I enjoy the clank and clatter of new form-building pads as she tripped lightly by. Let the unshapely change their forms at will but I like my wife as is and prefer dresses that show...
...moment that thousands of U.S. moppets would long remember. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy,* had just leaped, with suitable sound effects, from a plane. The hero wore a suit of armor and two parachutes. But one chute failed to open. Then it developed that something was wrong with the other chute, too. Jack plunged earthward...
...picture leans a little too much on strained circumstance and unmitigated whimsy, but it has its moments. Shirley, in her climaxes of calf love, sees her hero in shining armor, putting on his helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit of adolescent dizzy-dialectic* that might even become epidemic. And the whole cast, notably Mr. Vallee, is obviously having a fine "time. So will most people, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is good summer-weight comedy...
...William Dailey, now 23, a blue-eyed, dark-haired, happy-go-lucky Irish-American, had plenty of opportunity to get acquainted with his favorite vehicle: the motorcycle. As a member of a U.S. Army reconnaissance group for a tank battalion, his job was motorcycle reconnaissance ahead of the armor. It was an all-out job with an understandably final objective. "If we came back," says Dailey, "they knew they could advance...