Word: proms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forward (M.G.M.) is an effervescent edition of the Broadway musical hit by the young, of the young and, especially, for the young. It has almost the same cast, but Winsocki prep school has become a military academy (uniforms look nice in Technicolor) and who should be playing for the prom but Harry James, the Svengali of the Solid Senders...
Pretty, comical Lucille Ball, with her high pile of fiery hair, plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce...
...landed on the Baltic coasts. But Germany could concentrate perhaps 40 divisions, would have the advantage in the early defense of the narrow Baltic approaches. "Until the German divisions in Germany are drawn off elsewhere [by other invasions or the Russian campaign], an invasion of Denmark does not look prom ising. This time...
...General Staff threw the candidate system into high gear, ordered 350,000 additional officers. Men who showed prom ise were called from the ranks in a hurry. The educational index of new officers dropped from 80% college graduates to less than 20%. But the Army got its officers...
...absentia. the Statistical School is very fortunate in having such a talented military instructor and especially one who is able to interject humor into what easily could be a boring course. At any rate the boys are all trying to date up Miss Minnie Mooch for the Business School prom...