Word: crofts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Score Lord Croft, Under Secretary for War, added up enemy plane losses over Britain since the war began...
...gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...
Members of the cast included the choirmaster of the First Baptist Church, two Converse College students, a voice teacher, a movie usher, a private at nearby Camp Croft. Local, too, was the composer, for dark, rugged Ernst Bacon, 43, is dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College, and the guiding spirit of the festivals. A Chicago-born musician who has won a Pulitzer music award and two Guggenheim fellowships, Bacon has composed sensitive songs, witty orchestral works, tuneful light music. Last year the League of Composers commissioned him to compose the second* opera under its Composers...
Professor Seavey also visited Camp Croft, a replacement center in South Carolina where enlisted men are trained before assignment to regular divisions. "I was particularly struck by the excellence of the system of choosing the men who warrant further training and a commission...
Remember is not exciting, but it has a casual authenticity and charm. Its reconstruction of World War I society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King...