Word: mccloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ghosts of the '20s. Huston and Co-Writer Richard Brooks have updated (and all but completely rewritten) Maxwell Anderson's nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour...
...first, McCloud takes no risks. The war has left him too drained and cynical for acts of courage. But as one outrage after another teaches him what these characters are really made of-they are of a piece with all he used to fight-and how confident they seem of returning to power in his country, McCloud changes. Loathing, rage and his very fear of them force him to heroic action, and restore his leverage on living...
...part of his estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif...
...larger than Boulder Dam, second in all the world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through the West. Its huge bulk-580 ft. thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...
Other officers elected were William Hodson '42, vice-president, Michael Gannet '41, secretary-treasurer, and Roger Fisher '43, Malcolm McCloud '41, and Horace Bresler '41, members of the executive committee at large. Committees to carry on the work of the Union will be appointed as the issues arise...