Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of them seemed as sweetly reasonable as Scott Lucas. Said G.O.P. House Leader Joe Martin, giving soldier vote legislation first place on his Congressional "must" list: "The States will do all they can . . . but there is need for some assistance from the Federal Government." Maine's silver-topped Wallace H. White, G.O.P. Senate spokesman while Oregon's Charlie McNary is ill, was ready to go to "extreme lengths" to get the issue settled quickly. Said he: "It would be a calamity if we ... left eight to ten million soldiers sore, disappointed and resentful against their Government...
...became the Post's executive vice president. Post colleagues called her "Miss Spark-Plug." On the side she acted in amateur thea tricals, collected Georgian silver and rare books (she describes herself as "bookish...
Over New Britain, U.S. fighter pilots saw their squadron leader, 23-year-old Army Major Edward Cragg Jr. (TIME, Nov. 29), close with a silver Jap fighter, knew he had found the man he had been looking for. Major Cragg, second ranking U.S. ace in the Southwest Pacific (17 planes), for days had been still-hunting the Jap pilot who had apparently shot down about a dozen U.S. craft...
...Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism . . . during an aggressive and successful submarine war patrol in the immediate vicinity of enemy Japanese coast line." He won the Silver Star Medal for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action." But last week the Navy said the Pompano, long overdue from her last patrol, must be presumed missing-iyth U.S. submarine reported lost. Tommy Thomas' record, still bright, had ended...
...Dick Powell all astraddle it and spurring like mad, gallops through some handsome Technicolored Arizona landscapes and fetches up nowhere in particular. Originally, Paramount planned a film about the Calgary Stampede. What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little slapfooted dance...