Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Italians and Allied observers feared, with good cause, that the spark that would set off an explosion would come from the Communists. The Communists were not numerically strong in Catholic Italy. But the Red organization was well-knit. It had demonstrated before, at Andria, that it knew how to carry out an armed coup...
While it gets off to a slow start, "You Touched me" succeeds very well as comedy, mostly because of Edmund Gwenn, but where "The Glass Menagerie" had a well-knit cast, Gwenn pulls the cast of "You Touched Me" a little off-balance. And unlike "The Glass Menagerie," the more topical new prodigy of Tennessee Williams types its characters...
...begins in North Africa and ends with the march on Rome. Along that long, bloody road Ernie Pyle is omnipresent, but so self-effacingly (at Pyle's insistence) that he never emerges as much more than "the little guy" in the background. The story is well knit together from incidents in Pyle's best-selling books...
Last week Correspondent Weissblatt, swathed in a plaster cast from trunk to toes, received the Purple Heart. A Manhattan surgeon had removed the bullet from his thigh, sawed through the crookedly knit bone and patched it with a six-inch stainless steel plate and eight screws. Now both legs are the same length. Soon Weissblatt will walk again without crutches...
Director Adolph W. Samborski has decided to call off further play following this afternoon's game between Standish and Company A, a tilt which will have no effect on the final standings. Unlike recent basketball tourneys, where closely-knit units could be developed and league leadership fluctuated almost daily, the present tournament has resulted in irregular attendance and a one-sided victory for Company B. The V-12 squad concluded the season with a 6-0 record, with pitcher Runnier Wright largely responsible for the walkaway...