Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Durbin portrays a young middle-western lady with an ambitious voice. She wants nothing so much as a chance to display it before Hit-Composer Franchot Tone. Her surprise and delight may be imagined when she discovers that her brother (Pat O'Brien) is the boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming...
Posies for Horses. Since Condé Nast's death last year, C. N.'s president and publisher has been polished, handsome, Russian-born Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcévitch, 43, onetime Wall Street analyst and a smart business operator with the Nast promotional flair...
...Pat's Example. As the 5-ft.-10-in. "runt" in a family of six-footers, Ted Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...
...Pat's Reward. The circus made one trip to Africa, later flew down again to join Pat's Ninth Air Force Bomber Command for the spectacular Ploesti oil refineries raid, the long-range thrust at Wiener-Neustadt. Ted personally led the Liberators on the Wiener-Neustadt show. When they returned to the African base, General Pat was there to greet him with a bottle of whisky for the victory toast...
...complaints ebullient Mr. May has a pat answer: "If you're aggressive like we are, you run into things. You ought to hear what some of these guys say about...