Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, the G.I.s and French counterattacked. Three times ist Lieut. Richard Kotite's platoon was thrown back from an enemy hill position. Then fighter planes dropped napalm on the Reds. Said Kotite: "We picked them off like ducks...
...born in celluloid, with a silver spoon in its mouth. First of all, it's a faithful version of Garson Kanin's play, almost line for line. It has an excellent cast, one which for a change, seems to understand words. And it has Judy Holiday, who played Billie Dawn for years on Broadway. Miss Holliday alone would be enough...
...stars who can act come from Broadway. Most movie moguls prefer to overlook this, but occasionally there are exceptions. One Mr. S. Sylvan Simon, of Beverly Hills, California, deserves another swimming pool for realizing that Kanin's blonde chorus girl could only be played by Miss Holliday. Her Billie Dawn is not just dumb, or beautiful; she is charming in a down-to-earth way, and is wonderfully alive. The kid has a personality as big as a house...
...fourth atom bomb blast at Frenchman's Flat, Nev. was the biggest of the series. It lit up the sky brightly at San Diego, 300 miles away. At Los Angeles, 250 miles away, the light was strong enough before dawn to take a dramatic picture (see below). Earth tremors shook Las Vegas (about 70 miles away), where the air blast broke a plate-glass window in Marjer's department store...
...dawn on April 26, 1945, a ruddy, round-faced young G.I., standing guard in front of the Allied lines at Bad Kleinen, Germany, watched two ragged figures approaching him. His orders were to turn back the civilians and defeated Nazi troops who were trying to escape the Russians, but these two were women, and he listened while one of them stated her case in broken English. She had just been released after five years in Ravensbrück concentration camp; before that she had spent two years in a Russian concentration camp. If the Russians caught her, she was through...