Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens this fall is big, blond Bud Wilkinson, 34, who learned his football as a guard and quarterback at Minnesota. After his first year as head coach at the University of Oklahoma two years ago (7 games won, 2 lost, 1 tied), he got offers from Yale and the Naval Academy. This season, to keep him from straying, Oklahoma boosted his salary to $15,000 (more than the president of the university was getting). Coach Wilkinson decided to stay awhile...
Pert, brown-eyed Joyce Goodman was a WAVE stationed at the San Diego naval base when she met Nolan Holdridge, a parachute rigger, early in 1945. Except for occasional asthma attacks, Joyce was a healthy young woman who rarely missed a day of duty driving a station wagon. While going out with Holdridge, she noticed a red rash on her wrists, but thought little of it. In 1946 they were married...
Task Force (Warner) is an ambitious, full-dress review of the ups & downs of U.S. naval aviation. Thanks to the practiced teamwork of Producer Jerry Wald and Writer-Director Delmer Daves (Destination Tokyo, Dark Passage), it is a thoroughly businesslike job. By playing up the facts and playing down the fiction, they have produced a film which at its best carries the conviction of a documentary and the impact of history in the making...
Task Force has a double box-office virtue: its release is timed 1) to cash in on U.S. naval aviation's well-publicized wrangling with the Air Force and 2) to get an early start in a new Hollywood cycle of World War II films. (Coming up in the near future: Battleground, Sands of Iwo Jima, Twelve O'Clock High, Three Came Home...
...incident, it would not merit comment, but there seems to be a concentrated effort to line up Congress and the people behind a program of aid and comfort to Franco. Senator Pat McCarran is currently touring Europe, trying to see how relations with Spain can be improved; an American naval delegations recently visited the Caudillo, gave a big show for Spanish government officials, and was warmly received...