Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hedgehopping and jeeping around Korea on his third straight Christmas tour there, tireless Francis Cardinal Spellman, 64, went from outfit to outfit, held services, shook hands with troops of many faiths. Speaking to some 800 men of one regiment, the cardinal said: "American soldiers have taught me better than I could have learned in any other way what America means...
...alter the horse-opera formula a little. It is dangerous to monkey with westerns . . . Every time someone has taken too great liberties . . . they have fallen flat on their face." ¶ The Command (Warner Bros.) features Guy Madison as a U.S. Army medical officer who takes command of a cavalry regiment in an emergency. Says Producer David Weisbart: "It's a kind of an offbeat thing. The doctor's approach in most of the picture is fairly intellectual rather than physical. Of course, at the end he turns out to be brave." ¶ River of No Return (20th Century...
...three days it was clear that under the rough police handling, the situation was likely to get worse instead of better. General Winterton ordered them off the streets, and put U.S. troops of the 351st Infantry Regiment to the job of restoring order. It was a belated but successful move. The Triestini cheered the Americans, and order was restored within a few hours, without any more casualties. But the toll of the three days' work stood thus: among the demonstrators, six dead, 56 wounded or injured, more than 100 arrested; for the police, no deaths, 72 wounded...
...sound British critic has called 28-year-old Roger Nimier "one of the most brilliant writers in France," but there must be a lot of shocked Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At 20, in 1945, Nimier joined the French 2nd Hussar Regiment and wound up in Germany at war's end. Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel...
Clad in a skimpy peasant smock, and never, never, turning her back to the camera, Miss Lollabridgia prances through her role as the daughter of a recruiting sergeant for Louis' Acquitanian Regiment. She breathes her lines with such feeling and langourous gusto that the shallow hussies of the American screen are put to shame. In fact, her lush performance is at times too enthralling. During Miss Lollabridgia's more decollete scenes, those lacking at least a smattering of French will find it impossible to concentrate on the English sub-titles...