Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slnbad the Sailor (RKO Radio) is an old-fashioned Arabian Nights charade. It has pretty Technicolor, fancy dress and a busy, fairly stilted plot that chases itself with too little humor through pirate ships and sultans' palaces. Very young moviegoers will doubtless eat it up. Oldsters who have already taken this romantically oriental tour time & again will not be surprised when the hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), with a perfectly straight face, addresses the heroine (Maureen O'Hara) as "Ah, Burning Bright. . . O Woman of the Roses...
...details had been worked out in scores of conferences between Major General Lauris Norstad, one of the Army's keenest strategists, and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, an airborne sailor who has long been Fleet Admiral Nimitz' brain trust. Sitting in, when higher echelons were called for, were Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal and the Army's W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary...
...Division infantry sergeant, returns to "Boone City" (Cincinnati) to resume the interrupted pattern of his life with his wife Milly, played by Myrna Loy. Coming back, March takes an airplane ride with Dana Andrews, an AAF captain returning to a Boone City soda fountain, and Harold Russell, an ex-sailor who has a couple of steel hooks where his elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic...
...Meyerstein has doctored Coxere's prose to a point where it is comprehensible, but he has let it retain its near-Biblical simplicity. A good sample is Coxere's account of his coming home, accompanied by an old neighbor, after years at sea, still wearing a Flemish sailor's clothes...
High scorers of the contest were the wearers of number 11 of both teams, Crotty and sailor Bob Schade, a former Southern California freshman player, each with a total of 20 points...