Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military action, Scriptors W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and Director John Farrow stuck to the Wake Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does...
Handsome, well-built Clayton ("Bud") Collyer, 34, who plays WOR's Superman, stands six feet high, weighs 165 pounds. Though he lacks the original's bulging muscles and jutting jaw, Supermaniacs who have met him in the flesh were not too rudely disillusioned...
...Recording is all right, but to really get my personality across, I like to appear before my audience in the flesh," Hildegarde, world-famous chanteuse, said Wednesday night in an appearance over the Crimson Network...
...They lived to see the broad, green lowlands along the Don above Voronezh, or to climb the high bank below the city. Then they, too, died under the Russian fire. But more came. They lived to bring up machine guns, light artillery and mortars, heavy guns and tanks -the flesh and metal of the bridgeheads which the Germans at last secured east of the Don. Above them the Luftwaffe, flying in numbers usually stronger than the Red squadrons, ceaselessly pounded at the Red Army...
...this be suffering it would appear to be more of the mind than of the flesh. As WPB's Joe Weiner put it last month: ". . . Basic requirements of living can be met in this country to a degree which in all other countries would be so satisfactory that most of them did not even experience it in peace...