Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to read the realistic statements of Dr. Bernard Iddinge Bell in TIME, Jan. 31. Being a member of the armed forces, I can vouch for the validity of his appraisal. It seems to me that there have been too many false impressions conveyed to the public by photographs of large numbers of servicemen at Mass and services, and by overoptimistic statements of touring ecclesiastical authorities...
When he got out of the hospital, with two artificial arms, he took a business course and started selling insurance. He worked in a lumber yard, drove a truck, did clerical work in Los Angeles, worked for a utilities company. For four years he was postmaster of Bell, Calif. Now he is national field secretary for the American Legion, is married, with a couple of sons, and has a ranch...
...Hollywood Rightists called themselves "The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals." Purpose: to correct "the growing impression that this industry is made up of and dominated by communists, radicals and crackpots." The Generalissimo is urbane, greying Sam Wood, who diluted For Whom the Bell Tolls so that Spanish Fascists became "nationalists" and Spanish Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with...
...best-dressed thinkers, from Jack Benny's Rochester to Thomas Mann, turned up to hear Henry Wallace. Marquee names on the committee included Jimmy Cagney, veteran Hollywood labor leader, Rosalind Russell and Charles Boyer. Heading them all was Dudley Nichols, who wrote the screen version of The Bell, and put in it what little antiFascism finally peeped through the Technicolor...
While it was still dark on Sunday morning, members of Company B, 27th Tank Battalion at Camp Campbell, Ky. were awakened into a dream. No bugle but a little musical bell sounded reveille in the barracks. With proper but unprecedented politeness, mess attendants stepped up to the bunks and said: "Here's the menu; will you have breakfast...