Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen: whether the G.I. staff would produce such latterday giants as the Stars & Stripes' Class of '18: F.P.A., Steve Early, Grantland Rice, the New Yorker's Harold Ross, the late Alexander Woollcott...
...Name Is Julia Ross (Columbia) sets out to frighten its customers - and does a pretty expert job. A young girl (Nina Foch), looking for employment in London, finds herself eagerly - ah, too eagerly - employed as secretary to a re spectable-looking old lady (Dame May Whitty). It soon appears that she has been hired as a full-time victim in a family of determined killers. Kept on a diet of Mickey Finns in the locked room of a lonely, cliffbound house with a dizzying view of the sea, she has every reason to feel insecure...
...R.C.A.F. three years ago, this trio skated circles around the best defensemen in the league, led the Bruins to three championships in three years. A little rusty, the "Kitchener Kids" (they grew up in Kitchener, Ont.) have not really cut loose so far. Partly responsible is Manager Art Ross, who boasts that he has never had a man go stale on him in 20 years, and now insists on easing his kids back into action...
This well-meaning project is part of a larger Sinatra crusade (TIME, Oct. 1). It was staged with free help from topflight Hollywood talent: Producer Frank Ross, Director Mervyn LeRoy, Writer Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines). They got the idea for the picture when they learned that Sinatra had been making spontaneous visits to high schools where he preached little sermons on tolerance. The short's message should be clear enough to anyone. To keep the bobby-sox trade in their seats, Sinatra tosses in two songs, If You Are But a Dream and a ballad with...
...Fleet. War, which scattered the international whaling fleet, caught the U.S. short of sperm oil, badly needed for lubricating delicate submarine and aviation instruments. Most of the British and Norwegian whalers were converted into tankers and sunk or captured. But the Thorshammer and the Sir James Clark Ross managed to sneak past the Nazis, arrived in U.S. ports. They promptly went to work to keep the U.S. supplied with sperm...