Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your picture caption on the smash hit, Mister Roberts, reads David Wayne, Henry Fonda, William Harrigan [TIME, March 1]. Rather believe the last one is Robert Keith, the ship's doctor. The ship's captain, William Harrigan, spends little time with his men, certainly had no time to help the rest prepare a homemade alcoholic concoction...
...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
...includes such diverse personalities as weather-beaten, 72-year-old Admiral Leahy, still technically the President's chief of staff, who gives Mr. Truman a daily 15-minute briefing on strategic problems; kindly, dignified William D. Hassett, a Roosevelt pensioner who handles general correspondence; and shrewd, soft-voiced David K. Niles, who advises on problems of minority groups, particularly Palestine...
Billy Sunday had made the choreography easy: he used to act out most of the parables in his sermons himself. Ruth Page had lifted three of her four episodes from Billy's own love stories from the Bible (Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar), updated them to Billy's own times, the 19205. As a blowsy Mrs. Potiphar, Ballerina Danilova brought the house down...
When Louella finished, the company gave her a rousing ovation. On behalf of "The Chief," son David Hearst, 32, presented her with a gold plaque engraved with a tribute to her "courage, accuracy, fairness and curiosity...