Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they gathered in the Carrera Palace, the atmosphere was anything but chummy. Lacking a hero like Gaitan to unite their motley middle-to-far-left elements, the Liberals knew that the loss of eight seats would give the Conservatives a majority in the Chamber of Representatives and virtual control of the government...
...hero's played by Joel McCrea...
There was an angry stir in the crowds. Someone yelled that a U.S. sailor had urinated on the head of Cuba's hero. A band of students, hearing the uproar, rushed over, grabbed glasses and bottles from bars, bombarded the stranded bluejackets. Only fast police work saved the sailors from lynching. Other police had their hands full breaking up mobs and rescuing wandering sailors on liberty from visiting U.S. warships...
Died. General Henri Honoré Giraud, 70, French hero of three wars (he was cited for bravery 13 times, decorated 16 times); of intestinal cancer and pernicious anemia; in Dijon, France. Lean, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Soldier Giraud, who escaped from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion...
Ahead of the field thus far was bustling little Screenplays, Inc., which dusted off Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave (changing its hero from a Jew to a Negro) and put it on a sound stage under heavy secrecy with virtually unknown actors. The picture is already finished...