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...Point to Manhattan to referee bloodthirsty bridge games between Ely Culbertson and Sidney Lenz. Early in the morning, at the end of the matches, before the reporters could write their 2,000 daily words, he tumbled on to a mattress in the back of his car and fell sound asleep while Mrs. Gruenther drove back to the Military Academy. By 8 o'clock he was teaching chemistry to cadets...
...Dunkirk, became group commander (colonel) in April 1941. He spent much time in making public speeches and appeals to aid the British refugees who drifted back from blasted Europe (Failure of a Mission raised ?38,300 for that cause). Last week his mission on this earth ended. He was asleep when death came...
Connecticut-born Sergeant O'Connell writes his verse when most soldiers are asleep. In the stifling heat of a rear base in Papua, he dictates by muffled flashlight to 23-year-old Private Stephen J. Haretik of Cleveland. Sergeant O'Connell's theory: "In this war there is too much written about Zeros shot down and cruisers sunk and not enough about what soldiers think. We've glamorized, a thousand men, but after the thousandth hero the soldier isn't anything to write about; except to his intimates, nothing even to think about...
Cats enthrall Heroine Irene Dubrovna (Simone Simon). When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone...
When the Japs sneak-smashed at Pearl Harbor I didn't say, "Kurusu made a sucker out of Hull and the Old Man! Like as usual, Washington was asleep...