Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bachelor's Daughters (Andrew Stone-United Artists) is a pleasant slice of hokum with a predictable plot, but it achieves an endearing and fairly unusual quality which the trade likes to refer to as "heart...
...This moth-eaten plot, nimbly performed, takes on a restful, unpretentious air. Most rewarding performance is Menjou's as the crusty, fussy bachelor, who finally works as hard bailing his "daughters" out of jams as any real, doting father would. Most unusual performance: the boy friend of one of the salesladies, played-mostly at the piano, fortunately-by Eugene List, the G.I. pianist who entertained Truman, Churchill, Stalin and other notables at the Potsdam Conference...
...thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...
Rejection Slip. In Olympia, Wash., Bachelor Robert Wright, veteran of World Wars I & II, applied for a pension, was advised by the War Department that he had been killed in action, told that his widow should apply...
James Clark McReynolds, late retired Supreme Court Justice, was buried in Elkton, Ky., as his will meticulously directed-"westward of the family monument, head near the center, feet away from it." Among the gruff octogenarian bachelor's bequests: $10,000 to a woman acquaintance, $10,000 to a friend's daughter, $10,000 to Centre College of Danville, Ky., to "promote instruction of girls in domestic affairs...