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Sculpture Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
...searched. The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory." His service record in the surface ships was clean. The psychiatrist's questions gave him no clues. But his answers and his scores in the preliminary written tests told the tale. The sailor was healthy, intelligent and eager for sub duty, but he was not the type. Within the hour, he was off the Base, his papers marked "immediate sea duty...
...derelict, poverty-stricken, starving, illiterate, reactionary country in Europe to tell us how to manage our affairs. This great Christian would not of course tell a lie.. . . As he is the head of a state, he is entitled to courtesy. Instead, therefore, of replying to him in a sailor's phrase of two words we will politely use five often to be found on office doors 'Keep out! This means you!' . . If Germany and Italy do not like our bombing, that is just too bad, but they are in the fortunate position of being able...
...Part of Congress. Taken to the Capitol police room, the questioning sailor identified himself as Signalman, Second Class, Evan Owen Jones of Los Angeles. Slim, blue-eyed, 21, Signalman Jones had in 1939 been valedictorian of his class at Los Angeles' Fremont High School, had entitled his address "A Young Man Asks Questions." Before House Sergeant-At-Arms Kenneth Romney and Capitol Physician Dr. George W. Calver, who quickly exonerated him of all charges of drunkenness or neurosis, he said: "Those people in there are fighting the Civil War all over again. They've got to work together...
Bataan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked...