Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he released the confidential letters which precipitated last month's revolt of the admirals, Captain John G. Crommelin broke a whole lockerful of Navy rules & regulations, was duly suspended from duty. Both Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and Navy Secretary Francis Matthews were hot for court-martialing him. Last week Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, decided on a smarter, less severe move...
However, as they had against Milton, Governor Dummer, Nichols, and Medford, the freshmen proved themselves to be a second half club. In 2:45 of the third period. Berk Johnson dropped a high arching corner kick in the goal mouth and Captain Win Knowlton rushed in from his wing position to boot the ball into the nets...
...Johnson again proved to be the key to the Crimson attack when he picked up a loose ball 60 seconds later and back passed to halfback Jim Callahan. Callahan then lifted the ball over both Tufts fullbacks to Dana Getchell; Getchell passed to Bengt Sandberg at center forward, who promptly tallied his fourth goal of the season...
...Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day defense of Bastogne is gallantly manned by several of MGM's regulars (Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban), who were toughened up before the filming by two weeks' basic training, but who still look too full-faced for their battle-weary roles...
...battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads his way through these overworked signposts of character and makes each of the "Screaming Eagles" a rounded, tough human being. Ruthlessly demanding authentic gesture and movement from his actors, Wellman even gets it from that professional of boyish overstatement, Van Johnson...