Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quick Diagnosis. In Manhattan, wounded by a holdup man, hospitalized Sam Klein took one shocked look at the new patient getting into the next bed, frantically cried: "That's the guy who shot...
...Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) borrows its message as well as its title from a recruiting poster. The picture shows the impact of the Korean War on a movie-typical U.S. middle-class family and concludes tearfully that home ties must yield to the tug of patriotic duty. Producer Sam Goldwyn coats this sternly real subject with a shiny glaze of sentimentality...
...passes, he will start getting a captain's base pay ($356 a month) and probably go to work at his old wartime job: teaching cadets how to fly. Airman Williams, an indiscreet talker when he gets his dander up, said the right thing this time: "If Uncle Sam wants me, I'm ready. I'm no different than the next fellow." Just to show that it was impartial-and not out to sabotage the Red Sox pennant chances-the Marine Corps also called up the New York Yankees' $17,000-a-year Second Baseman Jerry Coleman...
Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
...Uncle Sam did even worse over Egypt. The State Department clumsily proposed to Great Britain that she surrender the Sudan to Egypt in return for Egypt's joining the West's Middle East Defense Command (TIME, Oct. 22). Britain bristled: such an idea, replied Whitehall, had "absolutely no likelihood" of being accepted "whatever the pressure." Uncle Sam, all thumbs, gave up, said weakly: "It was only one of many ideas for the solution of this problem...