Word: crofts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember the Day (20th Century-Fox) is a belated bow to the public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...
...Britain's Parliamentary Under Secretary for War Brigadier General Lord Croft announced to the House of Lords that in the fighting in Africa, Britain had lost only 2,966 men, of whom only 604 were killed, against 200,000 Italian casualties (including 180,000 prisoners...
John Mishanec, 24, of Olean, N. Y., studied forestry at Syracuse University, graduated this year. Blond, moony Jack Croft, 21, of Trenton, N. J., majored in economics at Lehigh University, also took his degree this year. Albert Scaturo, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y., started out to be a teacher, got a Columbia University degree this year. Last week Messrs. Mishanec, Croft, Scaturo and 14 other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether...