Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bull Bill" had already received assurances from his good friend, Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, that his Agriculture subcommittee would do the investigating. Senator Gillette posed some pregnant questions: "Is there any truth to charges that the War Department has built muni tions plants which are not in use? Was WPB presented with, or has it passed on the high-octane production program which is alleged to be so vital...
Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...
...humbly nominate Lawyer Smathers as the guy we least want to have meet us at the pier when we return...
...last week six top aircraft executives of the East-including Guy Vaughan of Curtiss-Wright, Glenn Martin of Martin, Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft-packed their bags and entrained for California. They went West to meet Pacific Coast producers and set up a new National Air craft War Production Council. Aim: to help cut production red tape for the whole airplane industry...
...London, as a full director, MacDonald made the documentary Men of the Lightship, turned out a dozen or so successful and forgettable potboilers, filmed the blitz fires of London from the dome of St. Paul's. His shyness once drew from King Vidor an indirect compliment: "That guy would have been a top Hollywood director but he just didn't know how to blow his own horn." Said MacDonald last fortnight, to a preview group of film and pressmen: "These combat scenes can be done in Hollywood and you can do them very nicely, without loss of life...