Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LEONARD R. BRILEY Lieutenant, U.S.A.A.F...
...guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung stubbornly to pillboxes and other fixed defenses. Most of the 1,017 Americans announced as killed in the first three weeks of the campaign had died in this sector, where the 43rd Division (Major General Leonard F. Wing) and the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Brigadier General Hanford MacNider) were fighting...
...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...
...Town is an enlargement in color of the sock ballet, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22) that Choreographer Jerome Robbins and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein did for the Ballet Theater. Here again are three young sailors footloose in Manhattan, only now one of them falls for the photograph of Miss Turnstiles, the subway's girl-of-the-month (Sono Osato), and the search for her becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park...
...Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...