Word: deyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awards, made by Rear Admiral Morton Deyo and Major General Frank Keating, cited the professors, most of whom were physicists and chemists, for their valuable services to the United States during the-past...
Covering the Waterfront. Hennecke's naval gunners manned waterside batteries bearing such names as Bromm, Yorck, Hamburg and Landemer. They served their guns so well that lean, bushy-browed Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo took his whole division of ancient U.S. battleships (Nevada, Texas, Arkansas), four cruisers and seven destroyers to blast them...
...This port is going to be ours, so we don't want to mess it up more than we have to," Deyo told his gunnery officers. But Deyo's guns and Hennecke's demolitionists messed it up considerably before Commodore William A. Sullivan, the U.S. Navy's port-restoration expert from Casablanca and Naples, could move in and start putting it to rights. Alongside his Seabees worked Army Engineers of the new Port Repair Ship Company, nicknamed "sailjers," using plans for Cherbourg's rehabilitation which had been made a year before its liberation...
Brown spends a good deal more of his money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...
...this sort of story were performed for its own sake, it would play only to ushers and to those who scrape chicle from the undersides of theater seats. Played to music and other anesthetics, the plot is often hardly noticeable. Both Deyo sisters are nice to look at, and Gracie Allen obliges uproariously with her One Finger Piano Concerto...