Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the two productions' shortcomings, the evening was an interesting one. Both plays were unusual in approach, and the Williams was enlightening as evidence of a writer's development. Last night's performance was a benefit for Camp Vence in France: the offering continues through Saturday evening...
Proper Name. In Atlanta, a charge of possessing salacious pictures taken in a nudist camp was placed against one F. C. Peek...
Happy Man. The people Marse Joe talks to most freely are his coaches and old friends on the Yankees' side. He tries to convince them that the Yankee training camp at St. Pete is inferior to the Red Sox setup at Sarasota. He praises the Sox front office as better than the Yankees'. Just to prove that he is happier than ever, Joe McCarthy raps everything about the Yankees...
...wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died needlessly because of Slater's viciousness and Bullivant's weakness...
...mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody and nothing beyond the next mouthful of bread...