Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacationing Eleanor Roosevelt watched Broadway Producer John Golden finish his portable stage in Hyde Park's library. U.S. Army actors were ready to give the five one-acters, written by Army men, which had recently tickled Broadway on a one-night stand. Settling down for the show, Franklin D. Roosevelt grinned back at Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Vincent Astor and assorted gold braid. The President shed his coat, advised others to do the same. The third play was a well-sustained gag by First Class Private Irving Gaynor Neiman about a barracks butt...
Studying tropical diseases, tobacco-golden Doris Duke Cromwell worked without pay from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the laboratories of the University of North Carolina's public-health school...
...Angeles, a Federal court agreed with golden blonde Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll that the 51 orphans she once supported at her onetime home near Paris were "dependents," returned to her $6,800 in taxes...
...bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
Bombardier (RKO-Radio) is a Hollywood salute to the Norden bomb sight, which is at one point tenderly compared with the goose that laid the golden egg. Before Pearl Harbor, Major Davis (Pat O'Brien) believes in the bomb sight. His friend Captain Oliver (Randolph Scott) scorns it. At their New Mexican training field, Davis' pretty secretary (Anne Shirley) romantically if irrelevantly pads out the footage. The bomb sight argument is finally settled in a night raid on Tokyo, when Captain Oliver compensates for his former skepticism by making a Japanese aircraft factory (and himself) a fiery...