Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep his feet in shoes. Transplanted from an Alabama cotton patch at the age of 12, the strapping, slow-thinking boy, only two generations away from slavery, had found himself a misfit in city schools where his classmates were nearly half his age. He never got beyond the fifth grade...
...under Navy's hat. (Says Third Naval District Press Relations Officer Lieut. Commander John T. Tuthill Jr.: "I don't know there is such a school.") Students, about 50 thus far, are Manhattan newsmen who will later receive Naval Reserve commissions ranging from ensign to lieutenant senior grade (pay and allowance: $2,199 to $3,158). Carefully checked by FBI, Navy's censors-to-be study naval regulations, hear lectures by naval intelligence officers, learn to decipher codes. Practice codes are mostly old spy communiques. Example: a harmless-looking news dispatch which dates all the way back...
Father Takes a Wife (RKO Radio) is tailored to measure for almond-eyed Gloria Swanson, making her reappearance on the screen after seven years. A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies...
Last summer Monro turned in his suit and joined the Navy. In six weeks he was appointed a lieutenant, junior grade, and along with Hamilton P. Thornquist '32, former city editor of the Transcript, and several other reporters, began turning out releases in the first Naval district's publicity office...
...attempt at acting by Glenn Miller. Once he lets go of the baton, his part might as well be played by a frozen penguin. In the second feature George Sanders plays "The Gay Falcon" to a slightly bored Wendy Barrie and a very bored audience who have seen such grade D mysteries oh so many times before...