Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Payoff. At Long Island's Belmont Park. Harold Holberg tried his best to bet $100 on the No. 3 horse in the eighth race, angrily protested when he received tickets on No. 4 from the pari-mutuel clerk, who refused to change them; when No. 3 finished first, Holberg took the case to court, finally...
...unmistakable victory seemed a week nearer, one not-so-simple fact of war seemed to be emerging: World War II is not yet a crusade. Indeed, the world over, week by week, signs came that there was less & less chance of its becoming a crusade. From Helsinki to Saipan Island, men were fighting with one real and common war aim: to win and go home. Many of them had hoped for higher aims; many still so hoped, all over the world, as in the U.S. But in the 249th week since Sept. 1, 1939, that hope seemed less sure than...
...Washington the Navy let word leak out that it had reduced all of its fighter-plane production, even that of Long Island's famed Grumman Aircraft (Hellcats and Wildcats). Before long the Navy, pleased at the low losses in small landing craft on the French beachhead, expects to cut back this program, which has had a longtime No. 1 priority...
Spearheaded by French colonials, Allied forces landed on the historic island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy, methodically cleaned up this small (19 by 6½ miles) German outpost on their flank. By nightfall of the first day, the Tricolor floated over the villa that Napoleon left for the Hundred Days and Waterloo. This week isolated pockets of Nazi resistance were being mopped up in the hills...
Tallulah Bankhead probably takes the leading role, but all of the characters, including Canada Lee, who puts in a masterful performance, and William "Smacksie" Bendix of "Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again...