Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well in Hand. This was only one Jap attack. A week later the enemy made a landing attempt near San Jorge, off Santa Isabel, north of Guadalcanal. U.S. planes strafed their barges, sank their vessels, caused "heavy loss of life." The persistent Japanese returned and under the cover of darkness put men and supplies ashore on the northern tip of Guadalcanal, to reinforce their guerrilla bands in the interior. Day after day, vengeful Jap bombers with their fighter escorts drummed overhead, dropping their explosives. Even submarines crept in close to Tulagi, tried to shell the Marines...
...picture was originally called Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, after Isabel Scott Rorick's book, which has sold 25,000 copies. Audiences at sneak previews showed that the title meant nothing to them; many asked: "Where's Xavier...
...first performance within the next month, Winthrop has almost completed rehearsals for its spring play, "Boy Meets Girl," by Bella and Sam Spewack. Director Herbert Weiner '44 has east Stan Durwood '43, Vern Miller '12, and Mel Rodman '42 in the leading roles of this breezy comedy. Miss Isabel Hubbard, Radcliffe '42, will take the female lead...
Divorced. Chronicler Edgar Ferdinand Lundberg, 39 (America's 60 Families); by Isabel Gary Lundberg, onetime editor of The Smart Set; in Bartow...
Spring" Again (by Isabel Leighton & Bertram Bloch; produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) becomes a funny comedy about an hour and a half after the curtain rises. Until then it pants and puffs, nervously broad-jumping from joke to joke and depending for interest on the deft performance of Comedienne Grace George (The Circle, Kind Lady). When, at the end of Act II, it suddenly bolts forward like a race horse that has been given the whip, it's a little too late for it to be in the money...