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Focal character of The Naked and the Dead is Lieut. Robert Hearn (Cliff Robertson), a wealthy, well-educated ex-playboy who has been taken as an aide by General Cummings (Raymond Massey) during the invasion of a Pacific island. The general coddles Hearn as he would a favorite son-and tries to sting home his belief that power is everything, that the way to achieve power is by instilling fear. "I make [a soldier] more afraid of me than he is of the enemy," he boasts. "It makes him fight a little harder...
Against this swagger-stick arrogance, Hearn can offer only a hesitant humanism, an instinctive revulsion against the general's icy formula. "How do you calculate," Hearn muses, "whether it's better if some of them get killed and the others get home sooner, or whether they all stay here but go to pot wondering if their wives are cheating on them? How do you tot something like that up?" Replies the general: "I don't concern myself with that...
...Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has sent to the Cambridge Liscensing Board evidence of sale of liquor to minors in four local restaurants, William H. Hearn, secretary of the ABC, disclosed yesterday...
...John Kennedy 3L, and Daniel J. O'Hearn 3L, of the Kaplan Club, were attorneys for the appellant, "Local 688, Electrical Workers Progressive Society," while Mark Crane 3L and Samuel V. Goekjian 3L of Casner Law represented the defendant, the "Ames Electrical Supply...
...lacked the Welch blend of virtue and hard-sell, the company made little headway after Dr. Charles' death in 1926. In mid-Depression, the ailing grape-juice industry was rescued by a Welch competitor, Jacob M. Kaplan, a self-made molasses mogul who had bought control of Hearn's department store in New York. After buying a small upstate New York winery in 1933, to supply Hearn's liquor department, quick-moving, fast-talking Jack Kaplan decided to concentrate on grape-juice production instead. He started an aggressive marketing campaign, expanded capacity and helped raise growers...