Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas' most ebullient Congressmen, had introduced the first new gimmick in Texas politics* since the hillbilly band and the free barbecue. Leapfrogging all over the state in his helicopter, he hoped to make a three-point landing in the seat which "Pappy" O'Daniel, the demagogue from Fort Worth, would vacate next January...
...What I Mean? In Fort Wayne, Traffic Expert Fred Berghoff emerged from a conference with Mayor Henry E. Branning on the overtime-parking problem, found a ticket on his car for overtime parking...
...Fort Apache (Argosy; RKO-Radio...
...early response was fairly encouraging. A thousand people gathered near the tracks to hear him at Crestline, Ohio; at Fort Wayne, Ind., 3,000 turned out. He was respectfully received-although at Gary, Ind., a woman in a floppy hat shouted: "Hello,. Harry. I'm from Independence. I knowed you when you worked for Pendergast." In Chicago, 100,000 lined the streets to watch him ride from the train to the Palmer House. But what the political doctors had ordered was a roaring ovation-and Harry Truman got only a spattering of hand-claps...
Shot in glorious black and white, "Fort Apache" introduces John Agar as a brash young 2nd Lt with a lantern jaw and a gay twinkle in his blue, blue eyes. He provides the love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...