Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombardier (RKO-Radio) is a Hollywood salute to the Norden bomb sight, which is at one point tenderly compared with the goose that laid the golden egg. Before Pearl Harbor, Major Davis (Pat O'Brien) believes in the bomb sight. His friend Captain Oliver (Randolph Scott) scorns it. At...
"If the war would end today and Davis Cup tennis could be resumed next week, athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army...
Five of Europe's Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack...
Between then and Pantelleria, the squadron had been the subject of many a row over its segregation from white outfits. Its officers, headed by the C.O., slim, tea-colored Lieut. Colonel Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., joined in none of the debate, plugged hard and long at their training. By the...
Benign Elmer Davis, OWI director, addressing the American Newspaper Guild convention at Boston this week, said Washington news is "less adequately covered than any other news in the world." The American war machine is now "rolling," he said, "but many people in this country seem unaware of it." He implied...