Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the three years of Japanese occupation of the Philippines, stocky, brilliant Tomás Confesor, 54, hid out in the lofty, mist-drenched mountains of Panay. There he calmly continued to conduct the affairs of his office as governor in exile of Iloilo Province and later of all Panay...
...winners, Wally Baker and Bob Everett paved the way to victory with brilliant floor games and some very accurate marksmanship. The Bellboys were paced by Julie Hatton, who made 22 tallies from his forward position...
...trio had rolled up a dazzling, all-time scoring record of 104 goals, giving the Canadiens the League victory (won 38, tied 4, lost 8). Individual performances by Right Wing Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard, Center Elmer ("Ski Jump") Lach and Left Wing Hector ("Toe") Blake were just as brilliant as the teamwork: Richard had zinged a record-breaking total of 50 goals; Lach had made 53 assists, four over the previous record...
...other hand, had never been stronger. Last week he announced his long-rumored new army, the U.S. Fifteenth. Two facts were disclosed about the Fifteenth: 1) that it was attached to Bradley's Twelfth Army Group; 2) that it was commanded by Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, brilliant former commander of the V Corps. The Germans were left to guess the rest. They might plausibly guess that the Fifteenth would be poured over the Remagen crossing, as soon as the defenders were pushed beyond artillery range...
...story of the Paris theater in 1848, Les Enfants du Paradis was made by the brilliant team which produced Port of Shadows and Daybreak-small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and weedy, irrepressible Writer Jacques Prevert. Its stars include Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, who emerge from four years' darkness as two of the greatest French actors of their generation. According to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some...