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...university Smith joined the R.O.T.C. and became a cadet 1st lieutenant. At that time he was a gawky, shy six-footer with intense, deep-set blue eyes, and was deeply in love with a merry, bouncing girl named Esther King...
After graduation Smith clerked for a year with Standard Oil, dropped the job in a flash when he read in a newspaper that the Marines were commissioning men with university military training such as his. He got his 2nd lieutenancy in May 1917 and was sent to Guam. Esther King sailed out there and married him. After the war he was transferred to the Marine base at Mare Island...
...Washington and Lincoln in this department, though Clara Barton still led among girls.) The real bandwagon movement (37% of the votes) is to contemporary stars of screen, sport, radio and the comics, Averill found. Tops among the heroes in these fields: Outfielder Ted Williams, Hollywood's Gene Autry, Esther Williams and Betty Grable, the comic-strip hero Joe Palooka...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...
This time Esther flits flirtatiously between a Sun Valley bandleader (Van Johnson), whom she really loves, and a millionaire playboy (John Lund). Johnson is made to work overtime as a singer and dancer, and there are specialty numbers by Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell and Connie Haines, plus an unbilled appearance by Red Skelton. By the time the last monumentally tasteless water pageant has ebbed away, it is hard to tell Sun Valley from the same...