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...dead, good-natured New England paterfamilias (Harry Carey) and his long-dead, thick-brogued, high cockalorum of a father (J. Pat O'Malley). They scuttle, garrulous and unobserved, about the parlor watching the effect of death on the household, bemoaning their earthly shortcomings, trying by spectral ruses to straighten out the mess in which the dead man left his affairs...
...Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
Notable among Wilson's work at WPB have been his trips to aircraft plants to speed production, straighten out the man power mess. Typical Wilson appearances...
...valuable than his theology. In his study, filled with 700 books (there are 1,000 more in the adjoining bathroom), he sees an average of eight parishioners a day who come with problems. He keeps a fresh handkerchief in his desk drawer for those who cry. If he cannot straighten out a case, he recommends a psychiatrist...
...forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...