Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is like a silly but lovable old friend who suddenly turns up after long absence with an expensive new wardrobe and a novel line of chatter. A lavish Technicolor production, and deadpan acting by the principal players, give the nostalgic old fable a simpleminded freshness and charm...
Major General Claire L. Chennault, 54-year-old 14th Air Force Commander, sent a deadpan application from China for a postwar pitching berth with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He pointed with pride to his opening one-hit, 6-to-0 shutout game in the 14th's softball season, explained: "It appears the war should be over soon, and I am looking for a place to settle down...
...Girls (see cut), a lithograph by Margaret Goss of a blank-faced blond girl and a deadpan colored girl sitting side by side on a settee, was the high point in race-consciousness-with-humor...
Divorced. Staff Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, 30, deadpan heavyweight boxing champion who now sports a G.I. mustache; by Marva Trotter Barrow, 27, nightclub singer; after ten years of marriage (one child); in Chicago. She had filed suit in 1941 but dropped it a few weeks later...
Last week balding, tireless Correspondent Lochner, 58, was hard at it. His latest stories seemed as Sax Rohmerish as the "informed" reports that stream incessantly from the rumor factories of Stockholm, Lisbon and Berne. But many a U.S. editor, recalling Lochner's Pulitzer prestige, gingerly played them deadpan. Sample Lochner...