Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Raffles has met Walt Disney, Charlie McCarthy, David Selznick, many other bigwigs. Elsa Maxwell gave a party for the bird. Paramount signed Raffles up for eight weeks at $3,500 to play opposite Dorothy Lamour in her forthcoming Rainbow Island. Qn the lot Raffles' dressing room, complete with nameplate, is next to Dorothy...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...
Escort Missions. Hellcats went looking for trouble in the Marcus Island raid Sept. 1, but ran into no opposition. They found it at Wake and in bomber-escort missions in the Solomons area...
...said the Japanese bombed some island-Pearl Island," observed Commander Thompson...