Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred Hitchcock, round, restless British cinema director, famed for his movie chillers (The 39 Steps, Rebecca, etc.), revealed that their audience-paralyzing secret was a thing called "the McGuffin."* Said he: "The McGuffin is the thing the hero chases, the thing the picture is all about ... it is very necessary...
...deputy, Eisenhower gave him one of airborne's best: suave Lieut. General Frederick A. M. Browning, Britain's topmost airborne man, small-arms expert and husband of Novelist Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier. What the airborne army's assignment would be was still something the Germans would like to know...
...Rebecca Felton of Georgia had been appointed to fill out an unexpired term of two days. Other Caraway firsts: first woman to chairman a Senate committee (Enrolled Bills), first to conduct a Senate committee hearing, first to preside over the Senate, first to serve as Senior Senator from a state...
...Rebecca, released after GWTW, was finished by the time GWTW was premiered...
...Buchanan, a Glendale housewife, spoke of his "duty to the nation." The words became more heated. There were mutterings that Warren was being a traitor to his Party, and cutting his political throat as well. A freshman delegate, burly, forthright Movie Producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Since You Went Away), stopped such talk. Said he: "Who are we to question our . . . Governor's decision? He's just as patriotic as any man in this room." At the end, Governor Warren still stood fast. The meeting adjourned...