Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus ended a swashbuckling story which began two years ago when big, hearty Colonel Charles Sweeny, soldier of for tune, organized the group. There were 34 of them - U.S. boys who wanted to fight for reasons ranging from pure idealism to "just for the hell of it." The youngest was 20, the oldest...
...story, part pulp dramatics, part pure action, is that hardy perennial about the squadron commander (John Wayne); his friend, the nurse (Anna Lee); the rookie who gets killed (William Shirley); the oldtimer who gets grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together...
...first choices, harking back to the days when his father taught him classic circus numbers, are probably his trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...
...decrease in the per capita bread consumption by the U.S. during the past two generations has been due partly to the growing emphasis on vitamins and protective foods, partly to the realization that both vitamins and minerals are lost when flour is refined to pure whiteness. As a result, only one-third of the food calories consumed in the U.S. now come from bread (only 19% in the families of professional men), compared with 40% in most of Europe, 53% in France. Modern bread, says Dr. Sherman, should bring the U.S. figure up to 40%. This means that two billion...
Next best is "enriched bread" in which the vitamins, often synthetic, are added to white flour. This is much better than pure white bread, but is often inadequate because the added vitamins are insufficient in quantity and some may be missing. "If you prefer white bread," says Dr. Sherman, "be sure it is enriched...