Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs at Arawe had not been bombed out, were not surprised: at 3:40 a.m. an enemy scout plane detected the American fleet. It shadowed the invasion ships for at least two hours before the first landing was made. But the Japs were not prepared for so strong an attack at a spot so lightly defended and so difficult to reinforce. General Cunningham's plan called for a diversionary landing by Sixth Army units on "Blue Beach" at the top of the peninsula, then the main landing on "Orange Beach" at the foot...
...super-talent scout (Rosalind Russell) is used to earning commissions as handsome as she is. But when the film begins she is having trouble locating a bunch of brawn adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...
...Washington's acting National Committeeman Fred Baker, onetime Boy Scout leader and active Willkieite, who arrived with an eight-page "Salt Lake City Charter" in his pocket. Fred Baker's charter contained some bold, some sensible proposals: abolition of the Senate's two-thirds rule on approval of treaties, extension of social security to farmers and small businessmen, a tax on war-induced incomes, creation of a War Cabinet...
...life. The father sees his son's first day at school, sees him playing Indian in the cornfields. He lives again through the moment when the twelve-year-old boy, not knowing that he was observed, gave up the money he was saving for a scout ax to a man in need. He sees the glamor and cruelty of his son's shy first love, sees him begin to assume responsibilities in the drugstore. Then one day the boy achieves the certitude that World War II is everybody's business. He enlists in the Navy. His father...
...Officer Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...