Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maine's doughty Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 59, stickles without compromise about active-duty requirements for military promotion. Last August she successfully blocked the elevation of Cinemactor James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart to reserve brigadier general in the Air Force. Her contention: Stewart's glamour could not justify the advancement. With no hint that she would like someday to be a chicken colonel (Stewart's rank), Senator Smith, light colonel in the U.S.A.F. Reserve, last week got back into uniform, prepared for a month's study of guided missiles...
Santa was not hit very hard, but he fell into the street as the fool dashed off. Several people gave chase, and one policeman was later quoted as saying, "It's a good thing he stopped because if he had gotten into the clear I'd have shot him for hitting Santa Claus...
Marblehead's most pernicious problem is a leering, sneering, domineering war correspondent (Keenan Wynn) who would rather chase a bottle than a battle, and who likes to brag that he wears "a 7-5/8 [hat] and about the same size in dames." The problem becomes critical when the correspondent threatens to denounce Marblehead, in print, for building an officers' club while the men have none. Marblehead gets out of that one by forcing his officers to build the clubhouse themselves -a project that produces a gorgeous slapstick sequence, easily the funniest scene in the picture...
...heroes are three Navy aces (Gary Grant, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden) who hitch a ride back home for a four-day pass. "I came here to get drunk and chase girls." Grant announces grandly, but pretty soon an s.o.b. of a VIP (Leif Erickson) tries to pull him off the girls and push him on a stage-to make like a hero for war workers. The rest of the story describes how Grant gets even with the fellow by making time with his girl (Suzy Parker), and how in four days the three flyers get so sick of looking...
Trail Blazer. In Swanton, Ohio, Chicago Motorist Patrick Powers, 70, was finally flagged down on the Ohio turnpike after a long chase in which he swerved along at 90 m.p.h., explained to the arresting cop: "I was reading my road map. I wanted to see where I was going...