Word: furloughing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take Her, She's Mine (by Phoebe and Henry Ephron) raises its curtain at 8:40 p.m., but it is really a late late show. The Ephrons are on furlough from screenwriting, but their script is cut from Hollywood family situation comedy and spliced to Hollywood campus frolic...
...Best Man. During World War II, O'Brien marked time unhappily as an Army sergeant at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards. His poor eyesight (20/400 vision) redlined him for combat duty. On one ten-day furlough he married Elva Brassard, the daughter of a Springfield house painter. They had courted sporadically for five years-on O'Brien's terms. "It was always going to political rallies, or running over to see what the city council was doing," recalls Elva O'Brien. "That was Larry's idea of a date." Their best man was Foster Furcolo...
...Mississippi convict's lot became better-much better. Out went the lash-long known as "Black Annie." Jones permitted Parchman's prisoners to receive their wives in cottages on conjugal visits. He organized a hillbilly band to amuse his wards. He broadened an understandably popular travel-and-furlough program for trustworthy prisoners. There were, of course, some setbacks. Example: a convicted murderer returned on furlough to his home town, and his wife asked local authorities to keep her in jail until her husband went back to Parchman...
...Furlough Time. Fact is that Winchell himself is not sure. Felled early last fall by a severe staphylococcus infection of the jaw, Winchell, 63, dropped out of a half-hour TV news program in mid-October; the following month, faced with the threat of surgery when the infection did not respond well to antibiotic treatment, he stopped writing his column as well. Since then, his only work has been narrating The Untouchables, a cops-and-robbers TV show in which he is an off-screen voice, reading a prepared script...
Ballad of a Soldier (in Russian). The vehemently original, vibrantly beautiful, richly humorous story of a 19-year-old soldier's furlough trip across battle-churned Russia...