Word: kirks
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When World War II broke out, Mac enlisted as an army private after memorizing an optometrist's chart so that his poor eyesight wouldn't keep him out. He became an officer, was assigned as a military aide to Admiral Alan G. Kirk. In wartime London, Bill Bundy recalls, Mac knew all the right people. "He went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket...
Critic John Mason Brown, a cabin mate of Mac Bundy's aboard Kirk's flagship the Augusta during the Normandy landings, recalls that even then Mac was hardly the shy type. "On D-plus-one," said Brown, "I was summoned to the admiral's quarters and all the brass were having breakfast, including General Bradley. Mac was there too-the lowly lieutenant. Bradley was explaining some invasion move, and at one point he said, 'And then we go in here.' Mac said-in effect-'No we don't.' And Bradley accepted...
Harm's Way opens at a Pearl Harbor naval officers' dance on the evening of Dec. 6, 1941. While boozy Commander Kirk Douglas is at sea, his wife (Barbara Bouchet) is at play, behaving like a one-woman luau. She shakes her hips at an Air Force major, lures him away for a nude swim, wakes up on the beach next morning in bleary panic as enemy planes strafe the sand and the holocaust at Pearl Harbor begins...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Paramount's 1951 movie version of Sidney Kingsley's excellent play Detective Story, with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker...
According to Grayson Kirk, President of Columbia, "the structure will house the most significant and comprehensive program of graduate teaching and research yet devised for the study of world affairs...