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Good Emil. His German air force training started with ill-fitting uniforms and clodhopper boots, loneliness, the desire to "bash [the NCO] over the head with a rifle butt," the eternally drummed-in theme: "You have got to be tough as Krupp's steel...
...rear engine the butt of many a joke. Sample: First American, looking under the hood of his stalled Volkswagen: "No wonder it won't run. I must have lost my engine." Second American, approaching from his own Volkswagen: "Don't worry; you're lucky. I just looked in the trunk compartment, and they've given me a spare...
...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
...rifle is not as good as the newly developed British .280. Sandhurstman Churchill, "having had some contact with questions affecting rifles over the last sixty years," pointed out that the Belgian rifle had certain advantages over the .280 that less experienced M.P.s might not appreciate. "It has a butt-remember that," he rumbled. "It is very important when one has no ammunition left to have a butt on one's rifle. That does not always occur to the technician"-evoking a vision of the young Churchill swinging a rifle on South Africa's dusty slopes...
Wicked Woman (Greene-Rouse; United Artists) is a reeking little slice of life from the butt end of that infinite salami. A tawdry blonde named Billie Nash (Beverly Michaels) is dumped off a bus, bag & baggage, somewhere in Southern California. Next day she wriggles her way into a job wrestling tables in a local bar. A few days later she is wrestling with the boss (Richard Egan). Between holds, she persuades him to sell the bar from under his wife's nose and run away with her to Mexico. Since the wife's nose is usually stuck...