Word: inge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than a year ago that Tobe learned he had really clicked. That was the hot August day when he had a phone call from Willys-Overland Vice President Delmar ("Barney") Roos, ask ing "What in hell is this thing we've got to put on our vehicles now?" "This thing" was Tobe's new "Filterette" and the "vehicles" were 18,000 Willys jeeps. Now, by Army specifications, all tactical vehicles, including tanks, must be equipped with his Filterettes—and Tobe Deutschmann expects his 1942 sales to hit $5,000,000, 50 times what he grossed...
...midst of these shouts, the Guard grew. Tom Wintringham gave it a training pattern in his guerrilla school at Osterley Park, the estate of the Earl of Jersey and his U.S. wife, onetime Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill. There in weekly batches Home Guard officers were trained in mak-ing hand grenades, using Molotov cocktails, wrecking tank treads. After a year of fighting for more armaments and more accent on guerrilla tactics, Wintringham resigned. The War Office, which suspected his politics, was glad to see him go. He was replaced by a safe man-Major General Viscount Bridgeman, the mild-mannered, sharp...
...would stand or fall together in World War II. The dwindling number of French-Canadian M.P.'s (reduced from over 40 to 13) who openly proclaimed that they would bolt the Liberal Party in a conscription showdown gave hope that the Quebecois' sound common sense was mak-ing him at last aware that Hitler, not his fellow Canadian, was his enemy...
Lost in the dust of this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
...shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden...