Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald Mishara, Melvin H. Morgan, Paul F. O'Rourke, John E. Pearson, Max L. Petschek, Robert B. Ross, Joseph C. Snow, Richard L. Warren, W. Brewster Wolfe, William A. Ziegler...
Unexplained Dilemma. The investigating board was "astonished" at the dismal results of its findings, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, chief Navy surgeon (and chairman*), told newsmen. A special "cause for concern" was the number of discharges for neuropsychiatric disabilities, "particularly those occurring in the first six months of service." In other words, the number of men who could not stand the regimentation that must go with military service is already too high; lowering of standards is out of the question...
...Captain Ross (Dana Andrews) the Japs.attempt no torture, learn nothing from him. Sergeant Skvoznik (Kevin )'Shea) is a former Ail-American, and nobody worries about his cracking. Torture reduces him to idiocy. Lieut. Bay-forth (Charles Russell) comes back to his cell with his mutilated hands concealed by black gloves. Lieut. Vincent (Donald Barry) survives with just enough mind left to stumble through snatches of The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...Ross, you ought to be ashamed. The Copley is just across the street from the Back Bay Station. When does a friend of the "New Yorker" get, off at South Station anyhow? All that indefinable air of well-being, good cigars and whiskey, that subtle compound of Brooks Bros., Yardley and Sulka disappear in a puff of smoke. The ruddy executive becomes a pathetic, puzzled little fellow in a battered fedora, clutching a suitcase in his arms and sweating profusely. He's probably run down at the heel, too. Hell, Harold, you might as well give him a dime...
...smart New Yorker (arc. 205,000) last week cast a stone at the famed, fabulously successful Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000). The missile at once set up widening ripples in the U.S. publishing pond. The New Yorker's irascible, bristle-topped Editor Harold W. Ross (and his co-editors) sent a bristling letter to contributors, told them that the New Yorker would no longer allow the Digest to reprint any New Yorker material. Reasons...