Word: piquantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stand By tells the adventures of a patched-up 26-year-old four-stacker in the Pacific. The story is given a piquant twist by the fact that the destroyer goes into its big battle with a maternity ward below decks-survivors of a torpedoed ship. While infants wail and the ship's carpenter does his best to midwife a new baby, the destroyer drives in on a Jap battleship and, with a display of fireworks which alone is worth the price of admission, sinks...
...TIME researcher works like a mental filter for her editor-writers- each week sifts through thousands of words of basic material. She constantly turns up unsuspected angles, significant bits of history, piquant, enlightening facts. And then, after the story is written, she checks every word of it for accuracy...
...Bombay's movie fanpaper, Film-India, Editor Baburao Patel conducts an unusually piquant question-&-answer department. Last week Hollywood learned how Editor Patel does...
Born. To Margaret Sullavan, blonde, piquant film actress, and Theatrical Agent Leland Hayward: their third child, a son (8 lb.); in Los Angeles...
...Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...