Word: joes
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...similarly high in potential, and that's why Coach Chase can't pick out his starters. On this line are Lew Preston, who averaged a goal a game in the half-season he played on the first line last year; Bill Garrity, also of last year's line; and Joe Kittredge, a scrappy junior up from the third line...
...Joe Stalin...
...only other Eli regulars in the Class of 1951 are quarterback Stu Tisdale, end Warren Gant, and tackles Walt Clemens, Rufus Phillips, and Joe Finnegan...
Despite its gummy spots, e.g., a trite pep talk by Chaplain Leon Ames explaining to a battle-hardened gang of veterans why they are fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads...
Author Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...