Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runway at Ohio's Akron-Canton airport one day this week stood a bright yellow, converted C87 that was once used by General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. Marines. Waiting for the take-off was a tall, sad-eyed man who was indeed the very model of a modern full-blown general, or admiral-or at least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener...
...From a line in one of his poems, which was inspired by the ancient legend: "As the vibration of one branch may be felt through the forest, so the influence of one man may rouse a nation from apathy...
...true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind word and a fistful of bills for the men he has ruined...
Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...
...have made an atom bomb, Lanny naturally takes over the interrogation of captured scientists. Satisfied that the Nazis are not even close, he prepares a report for the Boss ("Roosevelt would get one through the Army, of course, but he would be more interested in the statement of a man whom he knew and trusted...