Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paradine Case (Selznick) stars Gregory Peck as a gifted, happily married English lawyer who falls in love with the client he is defending. Mrs. Paradine (Valli) is accused of poisoning her blind husband, and Lawyer Peck recklessly sets out to pin the crime on the dead husband's valet (Louis Jourdan). In his infatuation for his client, he is incapable of imagining that she may be guilty. In his jealousy, he suspects an affair between the valet and the accused lady. Making a headlong effort to defend her, he brings on a suicide and his own virtual ruin...
...three months ago, came back to life last week, with best wishes from brothers Bob & Phil La Follette, but, for the first time since it was formed 39 years ago, without La Follette money and wearing no party's collar. Loyal readers had refused to let it stay dead. They had dug up more than $40,000 from their jeans, to go with pledges of $100,000 already obtained...
Meanwhile Johnny's true sweetheart, Nell, has remained unmarried. Now she promises to wait for Johnny and does so, during the months when he is with the Union Army from Chickamauga to Savannah. But when Johnny is wounded, the report gets back that he is dead. Nell marries Garwood and dies in childbirth...
...plot about the beautiful native girl had never been written before. An ex-R.A.F. officer himself, he wrote a homely yarn of flyers in The Cruise of the Breadwinner (TIME, March 10). The Purple Plain is a routine mission of romance and adventure. Flying by dead reckoning, Pilot Bates keeps on a hack's course with the skill of a fair minor novelist until he has deposited his hero quietly in bed with his girl...
...available through Army surplus sales for what Bouyoucos calls "a song." Substitution of the more efficient cable into the entire radio system is planned for the coming months. Bouyoucos added, "Now if we could only keep the University from unexpectedly switching electrical transmitters and leaving us broadcasting over dead lines...