Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...
Nine hundred civilian Freshmen will make up the autumn contingent of the class of '51, he disclosed. "With about three and a half candidates competing for every vacancy, the selection was a good bit tougher than usual," Gummere declared...
...Service Commissioner Arthur Flemming estimated that before the investigations were over, about 3,200 of the Government's 2,000,000-plus employees would be tagged as disloyal. The report did not define the shades of disloyalty. The War Department alone gave a hint: 158 of the 190 civilian employees it had fired were "ineligible for employment for disloyalty involving Communism...
...even whistling swans, reported the Wall Street Journal, were colliding with man-made airplanes at the rate of nine a week. Other birds, after being electrocuted and tied in sacks, were being hurled at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. at the windshields of stationary airplanes by scientists of the Civilian Aeronautics Administration...
...More than 200 American sailors . . . and British Guardsmen fought a pitched battle in Piccadilly early today," screamed the Daily Mail. The story could not have been less true. The sailors, explained Scotland Yard later, had only stood by amiably while London's bobbies rounded up an agile civilian drunk. The only riot remotely concerning the Navymen themselves occurred in Tottenham Court Road when authorities forgot to tell enlisted men about a dance scheduled at the Paramount Dance Hall. Only 50 sailors showed up. A shore patrol officer stopped by to explain this statistical affront to 450 disappointed London girls...