Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard but to the common sense of some of his brigade commanders, who heard heavy firing and decided to take their men toward it. "What seemed in retrospect a marvel of distant control by Beauregard was, in reality, the work of Colonel [Philip St. George] Cocke"-one of the richest planters in Virginia...
...Australians ceased to marvel at the Jap miracle of bringing one 37-mm. gun over those mountains. In fact, they discovered they could bring heavier 25-pounders themselves when they decided to go forward over the smaller peaks. The Japs had dug trenches, set up machine-gun nests in the roots of trees, piled up log barricades-but evidently thought better of their plan to defend their foremost ridge, 88 long miles over the mountains from their Buna supply base...
...that fellow is Westbrook Van Voorhis, whom you fellows were smart enough to sign up exclusively for the MARCH OF TIME broadcasts. He is so distinctly superior to any other announcer on the air-both in his dramatic narrative and his commercial "plugging"-that I marvel at the lack of publicity and recognition regarding him. Surely, anyone who has ever faced a microphone realizes that he has the toughest assignment of anyone who appears on the show, and everyone realizes what a consistently super job he turns in, week after week. His sharp sense of the dramatic, his absolute command...
...they could accept all the bids they get to spend vacations with club officers everywhere from Maine to Southern California-and just after Pearl Harbor a chairman of the Missouri Women's Clubs jokingly invited the Club Bureau's entire staff to share their bomb shelter in Marvel Cave. In fact, the national offices of most of the women's clubs have given the Bureau so much personal advice and practical encouragement that by now Miss Williams is not sure always whether her procedures grew out of her own thinking or the clubs' suggesting. But either...
...Best musicomedy performer: Danny Kaye as the double-talking marvel of Let's Face...