Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Questions for the Sages. In the auditorium of Nanking's Officers' Moral Endeavor Association last week, Chinese witnesses and the dead men's kin were doing their best to help the court-martial try Corporal Aldrich. U.S. authorities hoped the Chinese would be impressed with the fairness and exactness of American justice. But the Chinese frankly found the procedure somewhat opaque...
...blind. This sad fact was brought out last week at a Halifax inquiry into the collision of Canada's destroyer Micmac with the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28). The Micmac's radar scopes, said her crewmen, did not show the freighter, hidden in a fog bank dead ahead...
Down to Earth (Columbia). In Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), a suave master of celestial ceremonies helped the soul of a dead prize fighter to inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into...
...Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak is a bad 'un in dead earnest...
...Philippa plants flowers instead of the vegetables that they need. Sister Superior Clodagh's prayers are interrupted by flashbacks to a love affair. Sister Ruth does not renew her vows (which are renewable annually in this Order); she pours herself into a red dress and makes a maddened dead-set for the Englishman. The pagan atmosphere is too much for the nuns; by the time the rains set in, they forlornly abandon St. Faith's for the convent back in Calcutta...