Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alleged photograph of a single disc taken by Californian coast guardsman Frank Ryman, which would shake the jet stream hypothesis, might well turn out to be a flaw in the lens upon critical examination, Professor Mather ventured...
...Woman on the Beach (RKO Radio) is sullen-faced Joan Bennett, one of Hollywood's most efficient players of loose women, in an unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused some of his sins in this film. His sins are extensive and, for a movie hero, pretty human. He is engaged to a nice girl (Nan Leslie), but when she proves too nice and cautious to marry him in haste, he takes up with Joan, begins making love...
...looks rather like a Beethoven left out in the rain, was once a great painter, but has gone blind. He is unpleasantly eager to make friends with the man who is carrying on with his wife, though he coldly hints his awareness of what's up. Coast Guardsman Ryan slowly comes to realize 1) that the painter is holding Joan trapped in a sadistic relationship, 2) that Joan is no lady in distress but a bone-bred tramp, 3) that the pair of them are exploiting him for ugly, mysterious reasons of their...
Married. Mary Spencer Churchill, 24, pretty, apple-cheeked, youngest daughter of Winston; to Captain Christopher Soames, 26, Coldstream Guardsman, assistant military attache at the British Embassy in Paris; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman: "It makes a change. If we weren't working here, we'd be square-bashing [squad drilling]. Best part about this is the expression on the faces of the housewives when we deliver the goods...