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...Sunday, the 44th rested, prowled the Virginia towns, roamed through Fredericksburg's National Military Cemetery, where 15,000 Civil War soldiers (12,000 marked "unknown") lie under prim headstones. But there was no day of rest for the officer responsible for the maneuver: Major General Lesley James McNair, Chief of Staff of the Army's General Headquarters. He headed back to Washington, got busy again in his office, overlooking the campus-like lawn of the Army War College on the Potomac...
...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...
...Government thought this over. Finally it gave its answer through prim, schoolmasterish Lord Privy Seal Clement R. Attlee. Rasped the Lord Privy Seal like a tired tutor: "Nine p.m., British time, is not 9 p.m. throughout the Empire. It is inappropriate to broadcast nine strokes of Big Ben when it is 6 a.m. in Australia and the middle of the night in India...
...brick apartment building overlooking St. Paul's Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...
...Mountics don't get their man--the Texas Rangers walk off with him, and the Redcoats get only their woman. But Madeleine Carroll is the Canadian's bacon; so it would seem that Uncle Sam got the short end of the foreign exchange again. In contrast to the prim cold beauty of the blonde nurse, Paulette Goddard plays a passionate halfbreed who nearly loses the Northwest for the Union Jack by tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest...