Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film opens during the Battle of Britain. Mitchell's former test pilot (David Niven), now a wing commander, tells the story of Mitchell's working life to a group of flyers as they wait for the order to "scramble" into action. Retiring, publicity-hating Reginald Mitchell was no flyer. He was in every sense an artist, whose struggles and triumphs had a solitary character. As a study and an appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia...
Mitchell had a year to live, doctors assured him, unless he quit working. He used the year in incessant work, in which his test pilot faithfully collaborated and to which his wife as faithfully submitted. When he died in the summer of 1937, of actual exhaustion, his imagination and perseverance had shaped to gull-like finality the fastest and finest fighter plane in existence. The film closes with some . hair-raising shots of the kind of Spitfire action the designer never...
Only the week before he had agreed to pay his pre-Oona protegee Joan Berry $2,500 down, legal costs, and support until the blood test which may or may not show that he did not father her unborn child. From the white house in the San Francisco hills where Chaplin's new, recently ailing father-in-law Eugene O'Neill† works with his third wife, Carlotta Monterey, on a long awaited cycle of plays, no word came. The bride's mother sent congratulations. Said Joan Berry: "He can't do this...
...Test. The U.S. raids were a test of General Eaker's theory that simultaneous attacks against different targets are more effective and bring fewer losses than single thrusts of massed bombers against one objective. The big bombers flew unescorted by fighters-one reason, perhaps, why the losses were so heavy. It was too soon to say definitely whether General Eaker was right, but the attacks proved that the Germans are still able to muster heavy defenses against points threatened by daylight assaults...
...test was set up by Colonel Malcolm C. Grow, flight surgeon who concluded months ago that many a wound from ack-ack splinters and nearly spent bullets could be prevented by light steel on head and body...