Word: nugent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NUGENT JR. San Francisco, Calif...
...connection is close enough so that "The Male Animal," with Old M. U. as its locale, strikes a responsive note. Probably all schools have trustees and intellectual English professors and football heroes of two generations, none of whom get along too well together. And therein, decided Messrs. Thurber and Nugent, lies a tale. Their treatment of the struggle between Professor Tommy Thompson, played most appealingly by Elliott Nugent himself, and the various and sundry trustees and All-Americans who try to rob him of his intellectual freedom and his wife makes swell comedy...
...Great Life (Dial; $3) veteran actor-director-playwright John Charles Nugent tells the warm, homely story of his trouping life from shabby road shows to Hollywood, draws his own technical conclusions from the wings rather than from the study, vents an oldtimer's distrust of directors who pronounce it "theatah" or, more especially, "thawtaw...
Head of the expedition was Major General Richard Nugent O'Connor, a Scot with an Irish name, who won a silver medal from the Italians for valor on the Piave Italian front in 1917. Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, Commander of the forces in Egypt, had planned this whole adventure on his flower-crowded island in the Nile at Cairo with General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Middle East, who blessed it with a ringing Order of the Day: ". . . In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly...
...DANIEL NUGENT...