Word: englis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomber's Moon (20th Century-Fox] counters its lack of bombing with a brimming plotful of moonshine. From the time U.S. Air Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally...
...Lady Haw-Haw who broadcasts in Eng lish on Radio Tokyo. One U.S. sub crew which had just sunk two Jap transports' liked her pro gram the night they left for home. Said Tokyo Rose:"You build 'em, we sink...
Appleblossom Beauties. The uniform Artist Shepard designed was entirely satis factory to Boss Wrigley. As dignified as the field hockey costume of New Eng land's fashionable boarding schools, it still had the provocativeness of a Sonja Henie skating skirt. Scout Hamilton's job was satisfactory too. He had turned down several outstanding players because they were either too uncouth, too hardboiled, or too masculine...
Terrible Names, and All. A year later he was in England again, despondent at hearing from his mother "only once in two or three months." He sent her curt post cards ("Brighton, Eng. Dear Mama: -This is England's great shore resort for poor people. That explains my being here."). He worked on his novel, resolved to dedicate it to "the best and truest friend I have ever had - the one person who has given love, comfort and understanding to my lonely and disordered life...
...important eastbound convoys were the prey of submarine wolf packs, ranging the Atlantic between the U.S. and Eng land. In midocean, beyond the zone of air protection from Britain, the convoys suffered (losses: unannounced). When the battle moved within range of the four-motored Liberators and Sunderlands of Britain's Coastal Command, the Nazi wolves paid: five were probably sunk, many others were damaged...