Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene is laid on Long Island. There is a mildly sumptious house, in which live: 1) a harassed business man, the paterfamilias, who has just returned from Washington with the old gags about the alphabet agencies, 2) a lovable old grandmother, 3) a debutante, the daughter, and 4) a playboy, the son. This is called The Typical American Home...
This is what they did in the island that the Germans had called "one huge impregnable fortress...
...found: gun emplacements, ammunition, living quarters and other evidence which indicated that at one time nearly 10,000 Japs had been on Kiska. There was a submarine base (evidently abandoned weeks ago) and a long-neglected seaplane base and hangar. Telephone lines strung around the eastern side of the island led to a fair-sized power plant. Crude roads in some sections could accommodate the 50 or more trucks, some Fords, some Jap brands. The Japs were also victory gardeners. They had planted several small patches of vegetables. On the island were many caches of food: five-gallon wood-encased...
...Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back to the Navy base an S O S scratched on a coconut. Back in Hyannis, Mass., informed of his son's rescue, father Joseph commented: "Phew...
Maria Montez has looked more enticing in most of her other pictures and her acting has other pictures and her acting has nothing to recommend it. She plays the same old Lamour type--the island princess who marries the foreigner...