Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...livestock available; whatever the reason, the British Fourteenth Army in Burma was the world's best at collecting pets. It was a tradition. The late Major General Orde C. Wingate had taken a cow buffalo along on his raids, once restored its health with precious brandy. Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert's favorite was an elephant named Flossie. In Arakan an officer keeps a bear...
...this physically and professionally exceptional Viennese star, Bergner, as a dramatic actress extraordinary, giving her full leeway rather than restricting her ability to the ordinary standing and sitting living room dialogue. Whatever Bette Davis did in the way of hair-tearing in "Juarez" and other "Bette-goes-mad" movies, is exceeded by the passion with which Miss. Bergner lives the part of a woman discovering her husband is trying to poison...
...mates of the 365th "Hell Hawk" group of Thunderbolt pilots, 22-year-old Lieut. Edward Syszmanski is "The Mad Polack of Brooklyn," in recognition of his fanatic artistry at ground-level train-busting. The Syszmanski technique: "I come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving...
...advance of the Allied offensive, the 365th got orders to work out on railroads along the Rhine. The Mad Polack's record in three days of mediocre strafing weather: 13 locos blown up; four steam-spewers, one enemy tree branch captured (and brought home in his engine cowling...
...where they may for a good-neighborly musical revue. Photographer Phillip Terry, Writer Audrey Long and her fiance (Marc Cramer) sweat out the love interest; Editress Eve Arden is primed with metropolitan wisecracks; Editor Robert Benchley explains the samba, and Ernest Truex adds an eerily funny moment as a mad millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span three octaves without turning a hair, and Cuba's dionysian...