Word: haling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Maple was finally detailed to Colorado's Camp Hale, where some German prisoners of war were confined. As might have been expected, Maple struck up a friendship with two of the superrace. One Tuesday morning he reported for sick leave...
...been over for two months already, but it was great to have someone say so officially. The New York Daily News promptly warned its readers that soon all elections would be suspended. Radio Commentator Kaltenborn began to think up phrases for the unseen millions; Commentator Arthur Hale prepared some confidential sidelights. Roosevelt appointed Hull and Byrnes as U.S. delegates to the peace conference. He also appointed Willkie-just before Willkie was to be nominated for President. It made Willkie mad: he had hoped to win votes by promising, if elected, to send Roosevelt to Europe for four years...
Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, chief of the recently created Central Pacific Command; Vice Admiral J. H. Hoover and his opposite number, Major General Willis Henry Hale, chiefs respectively of landbased Navy and Army aircraft; Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, who directs Spruance's amphibious operations; Marine Major General Holland Smith, boss of the Marine and Army troops that Turner puts ashore...
Targets of the U.S. Seventh Air Force spread over a watery expanse greater than all of Europe. Last week the Seventh's chief, quick-witted, popular Major General Willis H. Hale, tallied up the dividends of 60 days of bombing...
...exception to the rule that books about movies are even duller than movies about books is A Pictorial History of the Movies (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Its 700-odd movie stills have been assembled by Bryant Hale and Marcelene Peterson, and more conspicuously credited to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor. His touch is evident in the captions, which outline the history of U.S. films from the scandalous The Widow Jones of 1896 to Mrs. Miniver. By turns touching, noble, hilarious, incredible, the pictures in this book have the endearing dignity and fascination of a gigantic family album. Reproduced on this page, reading...