Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this false start, Campbell scooped Jack London, reporting for the rival Examiner, by fishing the victim's severed head out of San Francisco Bay. He was arrested for removing evidence, but the photographed head made Page One, and in San Francisco the gruesome exhibit made Campbell the reporter hero...
Champion. The life-&-death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
Author Norman's story is a tale of Greenwich Village innocence, before Stalinism and Sartre, when, by his account, the villains were no worse than money-making poetasters, when there was lively talk in gay Bohemian cafés, and when a hero could stalk wrathfully from a meeting of the Poetry Association...
...picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero again at 35 East Twelfth Street...
Outpost in Morocco (United Artists) is an unlikely yarn, in a desert setting, about some fussin' and feudin' between the French Foreign Legion and the Arabs. Its hero is Legionnaire George Raft, a man with an eye for Arab beauty, who falls in love with the Paris-bred daughter (Marie Windsor) of a rebel chieftain. He is finally obliged, pour la patrie, to dynamite her to kingdom come, along with a large group of her compatriots. Outpost's most dramatic feature: some authentic shots of the Atlas Mountains in French Morocco...