Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London slavey. Peter Lorre, Katina Paxi-nou and Victor Francen are a very nasty gang of despicable villains. And Director Herman Shumlin has polished up a gallery of minor characters that are as balmy and memorable as any Hitchcock ever thought of. Notable examples: an intense old professor who has invented a new language as a means toward international peace, and a Hindu "mass observer" whose love of irrelevant facts helps solve a crime...
...football story, which is dusted off only for the great, has been revived by West Point's 295-lb. line coach, Herman ("Kin Folk") Hickman. According to his version, it was Army's ball, third down and two to go in last year's Navy game. After the Cadets came out of their huddle, one lineman said to his Navy opponent: "Blanchard is going to carry [the ball], I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going...
...West Coast, the name player was Herman Wedemeyer (no kin to the General), Hawaii's gift to St. Mary's College. He is a 173-lb., triple-threat halfback who even knows how to block. So far his luster has been dimmed by the fact that St. Mary's has met only weak opposition. This week Wedemeyer gets his chance against Southern California...
...only occasionally flaring into tightlipped, concise profanity, Forrestal wrought some changes. One of them was to transform the Navy into a businesslike partnership between civilians and brass hats, drawing into the firm such men as regular Navyman Admiral Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various men around him: Artemus L. Gates, onetime Yale football captain, Navy pilot in World...
...Romance. Once the U.S. had been the world's greatest whaling nation. In the 1840s as many as 735 ships and 40,000 men went out from narrow New England ports to hunt in the seven seas. The incredibly hard life which inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick also inspired less printable tales. Said one shocked observer: "In Hawaii, intemperance and lust have run riot. Almost every ship anchored is a floating brothel...