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After 25 hours of dismayed silence, Army authorities issued a tight-lipped statement. That rumor, at any rate, was no fantasy. Private William McRae, a chauffeur, had indeed been shot and seriously wounded; Colonel William T. Colman, 39, commander at Selfridge, was under arrest and observation at a Battle Creek hospital...
...Colonel Fires. Unofficial details pieced out the story. Apparently Colonel Colman had called just before 1 a.m. for a car to take him home. His regular driver was off duty; by an unlucky happenstance, the new dispatcher did not know of Col-man's standing order that no Negro soldier should drive his car. At headquarters, said eyewitnesses, McRae reported: "Your car is ready, sir." Colman drew his service pistol and fired...
Random Harvest (Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters; TIME...
Random Harvest (Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters; TIME...
...story is about a shell-shocked soldier (Mr. Colman) who, as "John Smith," emerges in a daze from an asylum on Armistice Night, 1918. A jolly, warmblooded music-hall actress, Paula (Miss Garson), picks him up in the fog, nurses him to health and the altar. They are happily tucked away in a little cottage, complete with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life...