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Exterminator liked racing. He was famed for carrying back-breaking poundage and running long distances (from behind) over any kind of track. For variation, Old Slim occasionally knocked off sprint champions at their own distance. Henry McDaniel, one of his seven trainers (in seven years of racing) said that he was one of the dumbest horses that ever lived-he didn't know the difference between...
This change in complexion was hastily noted by Associated Pressman C. Yates McDaniel. He wrote one day, "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign [is] in sight," and said next day: "Japanese reinforcements landed on Leyte Island indicated today the Nipponese will bitterly and bloodily dispute General Douglas MacArthur's belief that the end of the Leyte-Samar campaign in the Philippines is in sight...
Head of this Home is Mr. Hilton who is a captain away at war. Only his photograph ever appears in the film. Mrs. Hilton the U.S. dream housewife, is Claudette Colbert, acting her age. She is graciously patronizing to tradesmen, affectionate toward her servant (Hattie McDaniel) patient even with her bitchy cocktail-acquaintance (Agnes Moorehead) and a good mother to her two daughters...
...British last week had a choral experience which the London Times said was without parallel. It was provided in London's Royal Albert Hall by 200 U.S. Negro soldiers. With Private James McDaniel of Kansas City leading them, plucking tones from the bright-buttoned chests like a harpist, they surged through the classic spirituals and the exacting Ballad for Americans. They topped off with McDaniel's own "I see trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere. All over the world, there is trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere...
...nights running, 5,000 Britons and the members of the London Symphony Orchestra stood up, cheered, stamped, clapped, laughed and cried. Said the News Chronicle: "How seldom we in this country hear this great music adequately performed." Said McDaniel: "The dark boys felt mighty good.'' They had earned ?1,000 for British war charities...