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...East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden Jubilee . . . may your score card continue to wave from the dugout...
Last week to Gabby's parents came the telegram from the War Department. Their son had gone on a mission over Germany on July 20 and had not returned...
...weak and threadbare plot revolves around Dr. Wassell's love for an American nurse played by Laraine Day. During one of the frequent flashbacks, one learns that he has run out on the beautiful nurse just as he was bout to propose to her, because of a telegram telling him that another researcher has already found the answer to his quest. It is not until the end of the movie, when Dr. Cooper, or Wassell, has led a band of wounded men through air raids, battles and stormy seas to safety in Australia, that he is reunited with his bride...
...Russell, the Institute called Sylvia one of the "most exciting women in the history of motion pictures." Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, found it was true what they say about eating aboard trains these days. En route to Mexico, unable even to reach the dining car, he sent a telegram ahead to Texas Agriculture Commissioner J. E. McDonald, asked for twelve sandwiches, six pints of milk and six bottles of soda pop to be delivered during the Austin stopover...
...Betka, Veronica's voluptuous girl friend, whose "pure teeth savagely crunched stalks of celery that broke in her mouth like icicles of spring." One day she received a one-word telegram from her mother in Poland. It said: "Suka" (Russian for bitch...