Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Pearl Harbor, Judge McCarthy took leave of absence and signed up with the Marines. McCarthy's war record was good but not spectacular, and he has made the most of it. He shipped overseas as an intelligence officer with a scout-bombing squadron. Nearly ten years older than most of his squadron, "Father Mac" was very popular, always scrounging beer and extra food for his unit, organizing sports, starting bull sessions. Joe volunteered to defend enlisted men, and boasts of how many courts-martial he beat for his clients...
...action in the second act picks up considerably as the comedy of cross-purposes begins to resolve itself. (Example: Eisenstein's attempt to seduce a masked lady at the ball, not knowing she is his wife." The dance sequence, although it added nothing to the story, was indeed spectacular, and the audience loved it --which is all that matters in a production of this kind...
Flying Leathernecks (RKO Radio] is the latest in the long line of films celebrating the exploits of U.S. arms in World War II. Except for the fact that its heroes are U.S. Marine flyers whose combat feats look unusually spectacular in Technicolor, the new movie differs from most of its predecessors no more than one can of C rations from another...
...most significant outcome of the primary elections, however, was not Mayor Hynes' stunning victory, but the spectacular showing of the New Boston Committee, headed by Jerome Rappaport '45, which was recently organized to give "good government to the people of Boston". The New Boston Committee's entire nine man council and five man school committee slate was nominated...
...relation of the public Jimmy to the private Jimmy is one of the main preoccupations of Gene Fowler's story. Schnozzola is not as spectacular a performance as Fowler's life on John Barrymore (Good Night, Sweet Prince). But it pours a foaming pitcherful of legend and anecdote, and Durante's numberless followers should be left reasonably happy...