Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exhibit A. In Kansas City, Stunt Flyer Leonard Sherman, demonstrating "How Not to Fly," crashed to his death...
Then the Warners took a flyer in Western Electric's experimental sound-film, which most Hollywood companies had already turned down. On Aug. 6. 1926, Warner's Manhattan theater screened Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy) with a fully synchronized musical background. On the same bill were eight sound shorts. Historians agree that the bell tolled that evening for silent pictures...
...Place to Go. . . . Stocky Mr. Thomas, a 'Navy flyer in World War I, got the urge to do something personally about politics while he was serving for three World War II years as a special assistant to the Navy Secretary (his forte: aircraft procurement and contract negotiation). In Washington he was astonished by the small caliber of some of the political big guns...
...leaguer. That prompted the artful Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox to distribute papier-mache fire helmets to his players whenever Williams came to bat. The only thing anyone liked about him was his hitting-a terrific .406 in 1941. Then he joined the Navy, eventually became a Marine flyer...
...introspective young war widow and three jittery ex-marines, the humdrum postwar world looks pretty hopeless. Dorothy McGuire cannot put aside the dead romantic daydreams that crashed over Europe with her flyer husband. Ex-Pugilist Bill Williams bitterly resents his new artificial legs. Robert Mitchum takes to drink, hoping to forget the painful silver plate in his head. Guy Madison, home from the Pacific with a whole skin, is too restless to stomach the unexciting routine of a civilian...