Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agencies. Nor does it include correspondents Carl and Shelley Mydans, who were taken prisoner by the Japs and interned at Santo Tomas University in the Philippines (we have just received the cheering news that they were recently transferred to Shanghai, where the first thing Shelley did was to hunt up a hairdresser...
...task was to build a bomber and fighter force in a theater that was considered secondary to Britain, yet covered far more territory and required a greater complexity of operations. Tedder's men had to support the light vessels of Admiral Harwood, attack Axis warships in the Mediterranean, hunt submarines in the Persian Gulf. Tedder's men had to bomb cities and airdromes. Tedder's men had to fight over desert, where airdromes were mobile and maintenance was a special and involved problem. More than that, Tedder's men had to learn to subordinate their spectacular...
When a wandering photoreporter (Van Heflin) gets sucked into this cultural air pocket, seven sweethearts are after him like a pack of soprano hounds. Regina (Marsha Hunt), the stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
...unique. It consists of high, steep ridges covered with chest-high grass, alternating with valleys choked with jungle. The Japanese cling, animallike, to the jungle. The Marines prefer the ridges, from which their weapons, particularly artillery, can dominate the valleys. But they go down into the tangle to hunt out their prey...
Minnesota's bluff, ruddy Congressman Melvin Joseph Maas, colonel in the Marines, returned to Washington from action in the Southwest Pacific, wearing the Silver Star for conspicuous service. He led an air hunt for Jap cruisers, found none, but shot up a couple of airdromes before returning to base. Jay Cooke III, great-grandson of the famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went...