Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pronounced impassable. Field Marshal Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
Except for a brief Christmas cable the last news received was a letter of November 1, in which Derby said "The die is cast--there is now nothing left for us but a job to be done . . . so important that it transcends . . . if necessary even life itself...
Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree," which they will perform through August 8, is a ten-year-old comedy of manners that, for harmless social nonsense, retains a surprising freshness. Except for a brief third-act lapse into didacticism, its clever risque dialogue will not lack punch for a generation schooled on the sharpness of Kaufman and Hart...
...brief, the Government's munitions-plant expansion program had been too successful. Not knowing exactly what would be needed, it tried to make lavish provisions for everything. Instead, it got the inevitable mess...
Marriage Revealed. Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, 36; and seafaring ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, 26; three months ago; in an undisclosed New England town. Her first husband was Captain Philip Astley, a London real-estate broker, whom she divorced in 1939. Hayden, who quit Hollywood after a brief career, said his wife would soon quit...