Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astounded U.S. officials reflected that neither Hill nor Jones could speak a word of Czech, probably wouldn't know a military secret from a comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way of getting even. Since the first of the year, a U.S. military commission at Munich had sentenced a series of Czech spies to long prison terms...
Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...
...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...
Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...