Word: culver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott have no trouble giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead of the Marines making a man out of the Culver kid, John Payne, he turns around and makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life of a Marine. What should have been the thriller of the year develops into a rehash of Frank...
Name's Chances. The 16th California District (195,434 votes in 1940) includes movie-rich Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Westwood, labor and middle-class groups in Santa Monica, Culver City, western Los Angeles. From his movie friends Will Jr. hopes for campaign speeches, votes and money. He also hopes to capitalize on labor's hate for Leland Ford. It was apoplectic Mr. Ford who suggested concentration camps for labor leaders "guilty of dissension," and last year he sponsored a bill making strikes in defense industries punishable by imprisonment, even death. With a fair record on foreign policy...
...Culver, a radio expert who was an Army Signal Corps major in World War I; Botanist Harvey E. Stork, an aerial photographer in that war; Dean Lindsey Blayney, a colonel on General Pershing's staff...
Marshall M. Massey, Tulsa, Okla., Culvor Military Academy, Culver, Ind.; John B. Rankin, Newark, Del., Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J.; Leslie G. Ritner, Waterloo, Iowa, The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.; Charles G. Sellers Jr., Charlotte, N. C., Central High School, Charlotte; Douglas R. Spencer, Eugene, Ore., University High School, Eugene; Hugo G. W. Stockbridge, Forest, Va., Virginia Episcopal School, Lyncliburg; Bernardo H. Tovar, Chicago, III., Portsmouth Priory School, Portsmouth, R. I.; and Charles C. Works Jr., Denver, Colo., Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colo...
...chalked up a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Browns. > Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg: the National Boys' (under 15) tennis championship; for the second successive year; defeating Jack Tuero of New Orleans, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, in the final; at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind. In the Junior (under 18) championship, held simultaneously, Budge Patty, another Hollywoodian, won the title after a titanic struggle with Philadelphia's Victor Seixas, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 10-8. It was the ninth year in a row (starting with...