Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercial aviation on the same day (Dec. 28). Since then both have shared in making the adventure into a globe-girdling industry. The men: United Air Lines' "dean of all airmen in the world," Captain E. Hamilton ("Ham") Lee; and North American Aviation's president and production genius, James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger...
Tiger at the Crouch. Many men-including men who have served under him-call Chennault a genius. But an Army colonel who was with him in China said: "I get irritated when I hear people calling Chennault a genius. He isn't. A genius would probably go mad out there...
...visions of Hollywood are curdled by his sour memories: for once, the theater's leading apostle of brotherly love is out to take a poke. His movie producer (Edward Begley) is a nauseous phony, a vicious heel. Saroyan is equally out to take a bow. His genius (Richard Widmark) of a scriptwriter bears a striking resemblance to William Saroyan himself. Noodledom, knavery and narcissism make a troublesome household...
...story chiefly concerns the producer's stratagems to get the genius to script a vague but colossal idea about"all the mothers in the world" called Ave Maria...
...genius merely sneers at him, pelts him with insults. But besides playing David to the producer's Goliath, the genius plays Fairy Prince to a fetching young extra, Big Brother to a worshipful messenger boy, and is killed off for just long enough to be mourned and extolled. Then he comes to life again. He was not killed after...