Word: lydon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autumn day in 1951 when Private William Speakman of the Black Watch won the Victoria Cross for heroically beating off a Chinese assault with hand grenades (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952), Private Patrick E. Lydon, 26, lay in a nearby trench, cringing with fear. Last week, before a court-martial, his lieutenant told what had happened...
...said . . .'Lydon, where are you going . . . where's your rifle?' He said, 'I'm hurt, I'm frightened' ... He said he had broken his little finger, but it seemed perfectly all right to me. He was lying on the floor under a shelf dug into the side of the trench the whole time ... I said several times, 'Get up and fight,' and Lydon replied, 'I can't. I'm hurt, I'm afraid.' " Lydon took no part in the desperate battle around him. Finally, the Chinese...
...first episode plunged right into the teary wedding morning of Chris and Connie Thayer (Jimmy Lydon and Olive Stacey) and The First Hundred Years intends to sob-and-smile its way through in-law troubles, childbirth, alienated affections and innumerable reconciliations. Recalling the long runs of some of radio's continued dramas (One Man's Family, Life Can Be Beautiful), Adman Walter Craig has foresightedly signed his leading characters to seven-year contracts. But it's hard to stop a soap opera, once it really gets going. Says Craig: "Suppose one of the mothers-in-law should...
Married. John ("Pick up the check") Meyer, 43, Howard Hughes's free-spending wartime pressagent, whose Sybaritic expense account was the subject of a Senate investigation into government contract-letting; and Patti Lydon, 24, Hollywood brunette; both for the second time; in Las1 Vegas...