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Briefly and the plot is simple enough to be briefly suggested. "You Touched Me: is about an English-Canadian air force leftenant (Montgomery Clift) who visits his fester home after an absence of more than five years looking ostensibly for the kindness he has missed is an orphan and an emigre...
...anything bad was said, they said it. The continuity was written, she said, by a Captain Charles Cousins, an Australian captured at Singapore, and a U.S. Army captain named Ince. She first went on the air as "Ann" (short for announcer), and later expanded the name to "Orphan Annie, your playmate." (She never used Tokyo Rose, the G.I. name for her. ) It was all a lie, also, she insisted, that she had opened her program by saying: "Good evening again to the . . . forgotten men, the American fighting men. . . ." The wages of sin, in her case, were...
...three years, he splurged $360,000 for yearlings, spent a lot more on such older nags as Valdina Orphan ($100,000), Attention ($55,000) and Rounders ($50,000). His prize bust was the $66,000 spent for Pericles as a yearling in 1943. Pericles' hooves proved too brittle to carry his outsized weight well; he has never run a race...
...Greek myth of Telemachus, the supposed orphan who found his father (Ulysses) and thus came into his kingdom...
Punishing Papa. Alger, who was never freed from emotional bondage to his own father, found a sort of compensation in telling this one story over & over. In each of his novels he punished his father three times. He killed him before the story opened by making the hero an orphan; he gave Horatio Sr.'s worst traits to the villainous squire; and finally he provided the hero with a new father to cherish...