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...story, but that is no great loss. One of the odd things about this odd picture is that there really is an Arizona town called Salome-Where She Danced. It was named; however, after a native, a Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt; and it is called, for short, Suhloam. The oddest thing of all, though, is that the show is quite a lot of fun. Most of the color and costuming is garishly pretty; the dialogue is richly flavored with such tongue-in-cheek lines as one man's description of the heroine: "She was always a great artist...
...bombs & shells bounced off the fort's 18-foot-thick topside and the Japs greeted all comers with small-arms fire. Then Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh Amphibious Force and Major General William C. Chase of the 38th Division got up the war's oddest naval task force and sent it out to reduce the fort. TIME Correspondent William Gray, who went along reported...
King stipulated, however, that no officer could be promoted to flag rank unless he had commanded a major fleet unit (battleship, carrier, heavy cruiser). Oddest working of this variable rule: Charles E. Rosendahl had to command a cruiser (and won the Navy Cross in battle) before he was deemed fit to be a rear admiral and commander of all the Navy's airships...
...season of few real upsets, this Hollywoody finish to the biggest one of all climaxed the oddest season since William Webb Ellis picked up a football and ran with...
Genius has had many odd explanations, but one of the oddest yet was advanced last week by an eminent Chicago pathologist. A onetime University of Illinois Medical School professor, William F. Petersen, offered the theory that an individual's chances of becoming a great man are greatly improved if he is conceived in a period of sunspot turbulence and foul weather. Dr. Petersen published a report called Lincoln-Douglas: The Weather As Destiny (Charles C Thomas, Springfield...