Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Vandegrift has had duties as an assistant because senior officers recognized his well-rounded makeup. His assignments in this respect were such important assignments that a one-sided assistant would not have filled the position...
Ginger Rogers throws her size, hairdo, and makeup about quite indiscriminately in her latest movie success, "The Major and the Minor." It is her really major coming-out since her Academy Award, and although the plot will prevent any such reward this time, her acting and a set of fast-moving lines even tops her earlier performances...
...makeup of the rest of the first team was quite a bit different from that released earlier this week, and there were a few new names on the lineup. Walt Weismiller, a senior who was kept out of play because of illness last year, has replaced Don Bitler at center. Art DeBattista, champion heavyweight wrestler of all the east, has ousted Ed Grain at guard, and Cleo Calcagni will be at tackle, with Bernie Gallagher right behind...
...explanation. She had escaped Hong Kong, she said, by disguising herself and Penn as untouchable dirty beggars, and then leading eight children pitifully past the sentries. The Japs failed to examine her husband's baggage, she said; it held the family jewels, her gowns and theatrical makeup. (How the relatives got out was unexplained.) At the time she was reported dead, said Butterfly, she was actually head of a Hong Kong "Women's Club" set up by the Japs. "But that was only to fool the Japs," said she. "My loyalty to our country cannot be questioned...
...prologue spoken by Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. They are modest young Americans, and they look as if they knew their business. One of them, says Reynolds, is the squadron's acknowledged ace and "one of the greatest pilots in the R..A.F." He is a curly-haired ex-Hollywood makeup man named Gus Daymond, just turned 20 and holder of Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross...