Word: fianc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though (for reasons unannounced) he failed his preliminary physical exams, Benson Ford, 21-year-old grandson of Henry Ford, was classified 1A by his Mount Clemens, Mich, board on a 2-to-1 vote in which his fiancée's uncle, Charles McNaughton, dissented...
...object almost for sympathy rather than dislike. He does two splendid bits: 1) when he handles a copy of the New Masses as though it were a bushmaster (see cut), and 2) when his emotions get the better of his rigidity and, standing ramrod straight, he tells his fiancée: "I love you." Unfortunately the finely conceived and acted doctor is surrounded by drama that wavers uncertainly between comedy and solemnity. The comedy, as often with Behrman, tends to be forced, brittle. The solemnity isn't pointed up. And Ina Claire, far from the glittering kind of role...
...letter to an unmarried expectant mother whose fiancé was killed in Poland, Deputy Führer Hess declared: "During war especially, which so often means death for the best men, every new life is of extraordinary importance. Hence, if young soldiers fall on behalf of the Fatherland who, for some reason or other, could not marry and who leave children behind, the State will take care of this national treasure...