Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cars were halted in two half-mile-long lines at the Matanuska Valley town of Palmer. Blankets and C-rations were assigned, though not actually issued. But mechanics inspected every gas tank, oil gauge, transmission, differential, battery, oil filter, radiator and tire to make sure everything was in working order. Soldiers handed out dummy orders and authorized mock money allotments, and women were instructed on driving in convoys for the sake of safety...
...turn back. Had they gone on they would have found special gasoline stores, ambulances, doctors and truck-borne patrols of mechanics waiting along 2,000 miles of highway. As they drove homeward, most wives had only one complaint-the Army had forgotten to set up latrines for women at Palmer...
...Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls as Dame Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Jessica Tandy, Lilli Palmer, and possibly Tallulah Bankhead...
Delaware: Charles B. Palmer '97; duPont Bldg., Wilmington...
...salaries (top: $2,000 per show), O'Keefe supplies such creature comforts for actors as cots during rest periods. He hires understudies for every part, but has not had to use one yet. Refinements of this kind have encouraged such stars as Fredric March, Eva Le Gallienne, Lilli Palmer and Judy Holliday to make their TV debuts on Ford Theater...