Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partisan guerrilla column campaigning against the Nazis in 1944. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit. Later, when the Marshal was made "Hero of the Yugoslav People," Phillips was the only foreign guest among the 24 people at the ceremony. For his part, Phillips says he gave Tito the first can of American beer he had ever tasted...
...first five: Macy's, May's, Federated, Gimbels, Allied
...Morning (Paramount) is a strained reworking of one of Paramount's most profitable formulas: the Bing Crosby-Barry Fitzgerald blend of Irish-American humor and whimsy. The first of the series, Going My Way, was a ripe, full-bodied sample of straight dramatic comedy. The second, Welcome Stranger, was a diluted blend of the same ingredients. Top o' the Morning is a heavily watered-down concoction, pleasant to the taste but lacking in punch...
...political maelstrom, personal lives veer crazily. In the underground days, for instance, Major Walker makes the Greek cause his own. At first, he disapproves of the stern British tactics against he Communist-liberal coalition, ELAS. He tries to argue with his superiors ("What are you after," a Brigadier asks, "a Greek army that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate...
...First two: Linden, Mass., Trembles, Mont...