Word: burk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Hargrove's particular pals are a slick con man, Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), his bucktoothed, leering sidekick, Private Esty (George Offerman Jr.), and a solemn, proletarian, Private Burk (Bill Phillips). Private Burk tries to explain to Private Hargrove the puzzled sources of his patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over...
...Burk was a lanky, wide-eyed New Jersey kid who couldn't keep away from water. In the time he could spare from helping his father raise apples and peaches, he learned to row, eventually became the world's sculling champion. War brought Joe, appropriately, to the Navy. The Navy made him an officer and skipper of a speedy PT boat...
Thereafter Ensign Burk concentrated on a particular target: Jap landing barges. Soon he found himself a champ for the second time in his life. His record: 13 Jap barges sent to the bottom, an assist on a 14th...
...Bridgeboro, N.J., Joe was a mild young man who did not smoke, drink or swear. Last week, in describing how a dozen Japs thwarted his efforts to rescue them, Bargebuster Burk, without falling back on strong language, used strong words: "They were squealing and putting up a terrific fuss. There was nothing to do but eradicate them...
...Burk of New Jersey, winner of the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Regatta two years ago and recognized as the world's greatest single sculler, will speak at a dinner given for the Varsity crew at the Boston Harvard Club tonight at 7:30 o'clock...