Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which is what many brokers have a lot of in 1942). The Herald-American has its patriarch, 83-year-old Herman DeVries, but usually crunches his opinions into two paragraphs, no matter what the event...
...contrast, the prison commander's nerves collapsed at not having prevented "an event which must never be allowed to happen." He saw himself demoted to his pre-Nazi destiny-a plumber's assistant. He went out to the space grimly known as the Dancing Ground and ordered nail-studded cross boards attached to the seven plane trees which grew there. As each fugitive was recaptured, he would be forced to stand strapped tightly to the nails...
Strictly stag, Sir Max's party was a literary event to which invitations were as rare and precious as a half-pound of wartime beefsteak. Novelist Charles Morgan (The Fountain) and Poet T. S. Eliot begged so hard to come that they were finally admitted as "gate crashers." George Bernard Shaw declined with thanks, cracked: "I suffered too much from the celebrations at my own 70th birthday 16 years ago to make myself a party to the same outrage at the expense of an old friend who has never done me any harm...
...Labor Day weekend the U.S. tennis season ended with the National finals at Forest Hills. One of the entrants, listing his home tennis club as the 36th Armored Regiment, indicated pretty well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many...
Wake Island (Paramount) is the first attempt to make a document of U.S. troops in action in World War II. As a straight Hollywood show, the result is better-than-average. As an effort to fill civilians with the image and meaning of a terrible and magnificent human event, it is as good, and as far short of good enough, as can be expected of producers who underrate their subject, their audience, their moment in history, and the tremendous powers of the medium they work with...