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...story concerns a racket king named Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) whose somewhat coarse way of life is interrupted by the Army. Despite his lawyer's efforts to "put in a fix" on his draft board, Jordan is clapped into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked...
...found two of the circulars, and brought them down to my room-one of them later disappeared-I think the chambermaid swiped one! As the firing continued, I went up again just as the antiaircraft in the port opened up. The French guns made a heck of a racket and the sky was full of black bursts. There was the continual rattle of machine-gun fire. At first I couldn't make out what they were blazing at. Then I saw a plane suddenly take what I thought was a nose dive, when it suddenly started to level...
...weeks they had puffed, sweated and bled through a nerve-racking training course as much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They had absorbed a good half of the shocks that unsettle even well-trained soldiers in their first few days of actual battle: racket and din of their own weapons, the heart-stopping confusion of a stream-crossing under fire, the never-ending struggle with barbed wire and booby traps...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...
...bandwagon which was heading for big-time football in the 1920's. Groups of alumni approached him with the proposition of floating a sizable bond issue to finance an enormous new Stadium. But financial acumen and antipathy to perverting sport for the sake of recreation to a money-making racket led him to turn down the suggestion, though the action earned many enemies...