Word: durned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week June Kovachs, who has already played four times with the Chicago Symphony, introduced Barrymore's First Piano Concerto. It proved to have a, Tschaikovsky-like lyricism. As music it was like Bing Crosby's golf-not of championship caliber, but pretty durn good for an amateur...
When World War II looms, Susan tries to take her son to the U.S. But on the boat train John II (Roddy McDowell) refuses to go. ("You durn little English man," wheezes his mother, with tearful pride.) So they stay. John flirts innocently (against Tennysonian landscapes) with a farmer's daughter until it is time for World War II. Then he joins a Commando...