Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LEW AYRES IS NOW PAYING THE PRESCRIBED PENALTY FOR ONE WHO REFUSES TO TAKE UP ARMS (TIME, APRIL 6). IT is A JUST PENALTY
...SUFFICIENT ONE. THE GOVERNMENT WHICH DETERMINED THAT PENALTY DOES NOT INDICT HIM AS A SLACKER OR AS AN EVADER OF THE DRAFT. WERE HE EITHER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED BEHIND BARS TO BE KEPT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE. AT THE INTERNMENT CAMP TO WHICH LEW AYRES HAS BEEN SENT HE PAYS IN MONEY AND LABOR FOR HIS BOARD AND KEEP. WE DO NOT ADVOCATE THE THING THAT LEW AYRES HAS DONE. IN FACT WE BELIEVE IT TO BE THE SAD RESULT OF A SADDER MISCONCEPTION BUT WE TAKE OCCASION TO POINT OUT THAT HE SPOKE AND ACTED...
...spite of their undoubtedly good intentions, the film distributors who have ostracized conscientious objector Lew Ayre's may be classed with the school principals who expelled juvenile Jehovah's Witnesses for their religious views. It would be different if there were some doubt as to Ayres's sincerity. If he had suddenly been converted to the stand he has taken, or if there were any other reason to believe that his views were purely opportunistic, then there might be some justification for banning his pictures. But the fact is that nobody has denied his sincerity, and no informed person doubts...
Cinemactor Lew (Dr. Kildare) Ayres, who scored his first screen hit in the anti-war All Quiet On the Western Front, was sent to an undisclosed camp in the West as a conscientious objector. Of the 33-year-old ex-husband of Ginger Rogers the chairman of his draft board said: "We finally came to the conclusion that his objections to Army service were sincere. That's about all there is to say about the matter...
...There was some split second tunesmithing. In Hollywood, a few hours after the news from Pearl Harbor, Composer Lew Pollack and Lyricist Ned Washington produced a number which Comedian Bert Wheeler sang that night at Ciro's: Oh, we didn't want to do it, but they're asking for it now. So we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate...