Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daisy Chain of Thought. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Vassar Class of '35 postponed its tenth reunion, sent out questionnaires instead. Sample queries : "Weight?" "Color of Hair?" "Wrinkles?" Out of the Red. In Woodstock, N.H., authorities gratefully accepted an unsolicited check for $1.20 from one L. Dewey of Muskegon, Mich., which wiped out the town's $1.19 debt...
General Douglas MacArthur had a happy reunion in Manila: the first refrigerator ship to enter the harbor since the city's liberation steamed up from Australia, debarked his 45-year-old wife, Jean, and six-year-old son, Arthur...
...General MacArthur on New Year's Eve, 1941. Self-effacing Reporter Hewlett, in the middle of a long dispatch, reported simply: "I found [my wife] today, recovering from a nervous breakdown. . . . Her weight had dropped to 80 pounds. But I found her in excellent spirits. It was a reunion after years about which I do not want to think...
...again in Paris in 1936. De Gaulle was then a lieutenant colonel, Tukhachevsky the youngest (43) marshal in the Red Army and Vice Commissar for Defense. He had come to Paris to complete the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty. At a gay reunion dinner he talked over old times at Ingolstadt with De Gaulle and other French Army...
...Impatient Years (Columbia) converts a promising situation-the readjustment problems of a returning soldier and his wife-into fair-to-middling, coarsegrained comedy (typical shot: the shy pair, on their first night of reunion, prowling round & round the nuptial bed like two suspicious alley cats). Halfway through, the story goes fancy, loses touch with its touching subject but not entirely with its ability to get laughs, thanks to Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Charley Grapewin...