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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild, also named as Chairman of the University Committee on Veterans, will supervise the handling of special problems due to arise as former service men pick up work broken off at time of enlistment, or start new studies under the G.I. Bill of Rights...
...Due to his never having been abroad, Dewey's international viewpoint is necessarily narrow...
...Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns looked...
Palau. The same day that MacArthur struck, and three months to the day after Saipan, Admiral Nimitz' marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...
...such a title normally suggests. It is, to be sure, a story of wartime juvenile delinquency, and a rather scrambled one at that. But Youth Runs Wild, for all its clumsiness, is remarkably full of warmth, of life, and of real cinematic sensitiveness. Credit for its awkward grace is due in part to a round dozen of its little-known players, in part to its scripters and director and cameraman, but most of all to 40-year-old Producer Val Lewton, nephew of Alia Nazimova...