Word: holbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reaching out among the far-flung Harvard alumni, war has been brought a step closer to home recently as the Alumni Bulletin announced that F. Holbrook Mahn '38 has been rescued after a week afloat at sea, and Arthur L. Derby '39 is reported missing in action in the Philippines...
...Rugby, Independent William J. Brown defeated Conservative Colonel Sir Claude Holbrook, 9,824-to-9,145 (the previous Conservative majority had been 7,844). Stocky, sharp-tongued Independent Brown, onetime Labor M.P., pledged his support to Prime Minister Churchill, but added: "The people have given me a message to Churchill that he should free himself from the Party prison and should put his foot down on privileged inefficiency in high places...
Defeated Conservative Colonel Holbrook, a second-generation squire (Worcestershire sauce) and a first-rate Colonel Blimp, campaigned by reading an endorsement from Prime Minister Churchill. When asked why he lost, Colonel Holbrook harrumphed: "God only knows...
...first time since the last war, the Hasty Pudding Club has decided to cancel its annual production in view of the national emergency and the pressure of many new demands upon students, publicity manager Holbrook R. Davis '43 announced last night. This year's show would have been the Club's 96th...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...