Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Programs Department's director, Frank Callan Norris, a TIME Inc. staffman ever since he left Princeton in 1929, managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
Were the carrier-aircraft strikes at Guam merely preparatory blows, like that of Feb. 21-22? Or were they the curtain-raiser for a lightning amphibious conquest patterned after Tarawa and Kwajalein...
...Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful farmer and turkey raiser, is a fascinated and fascinating lecturer, and as a scientist has contributed substantially to progress in applied electricity and electronics...
...that the audience knows from the start that Laird Cregar is the Ripper, so that the suspense is purely academic. In part it is due to the incredible elegance of the production and photography, which makes the whole film more memorable as a museum piece than as a hair-raiser. As a result, several excellent performances, notably those of Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke (as the landlord), Sara Allgood and Merle Oberon, are not as exciting as they should be. Exciting enough is Miss Oberon's cancan (see cut). Notable exception to the general thrillessness is Doris Lloyd...
Flight from a Desk. Because Pappy had just recovered from a broken leg and was getting along in years (he is all of 31) someone had tried to put him behind a desk. A hell-raiser by temperament, he stirred up such a row that someone had another thought, gave him a squadron no one else wanted: a bunch of casual transfer and replacement pilots, well-trained but never welded into a team...