Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glory. The hail of German fire and depth charges made escape impossible. Lieuts. Basil C. G. Place and Donald Cameron got their crewmen out and scuttled their funny little boats. Most of them are now prisoners of war in Germany...
...incidents on a life raft or in an airplane might make the headlines. The picture of a crucifix and a scapular medal gives the impression that every soldier says an Act of Contrition every night. But I have found instances of Catholics who don't even know, the Hail Mary and as far as the Act of Contrition is concerned, don't make me laugh! I have had soldier after soldier repeat after me word for word the Act of Contrition so that I could give him absolution. And for penance, all I could give them...
Meanwhile Sturges has two pictures waiting in the can. One is called Hail the Conquering Hero. The other, Great Without Glory, is an adaptation of René Fülöp-Miller's Triumph Over Pain, which was the story of anesthesia. It is still the story of anesthesia-but it is also a Sturges farce. It remains to be seen what Sturges might do with really major material, such a Seven Against Thebes, or the Oberammergau Players...
...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...
Arpad, something of a neurotic himself, has whipped up a few more bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken...