Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour of duty in this theater is from three to four years . . . So the soldier starts living with his girl, paying her rent and taking care of her till the time comes for them to put in the paper work. Those of us who don't want to live the "sinful" life and have it on our conscience, can only get married in the local Catholic church . . . The soldier can get court-martialed for it, or shipped out of the command secretly and separated from his wife for life . . . SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD U.S.F.A. c/o Postmaster New York...
...Till Eulenspiegel (U.S. premiere), set to the raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him, he turns her into a witch; when hunchbacked beggars welcome him to their group, he steals their money. At the end, he is saved from the chopping block by a girl who ought to know better but loves him anyway. Babilée's lithe gymnastics are the whole...
Normally, a new oil well gushes, has to be pumped only after it has been producing for a while. But Harvey had to pump his well to get it started; not till it had been going for a few months did oil gush up. As his output rose from 60 to 125 bbls. a day, the rush began. By last week, the Spraberry trend was the biggest oil "play" in the U.S., with 522 Spraberry wells completed (including 23 owned by Harvey), 200 being drilled, and 3,000,000 bbls. of oil already out of the ground...
...swagger drive him to shaky deeds. He takes graft and kickbacks from payrolls, sells secret government information to the natives. When he is fired from his government job, he gets another in the town store. He is soon fired again, and when he sneaks back to dip into the till, his ex-boss traps him. In the scuffle, the storekeeper is killed and Johnson is sentenced to hang. Bamu deserts him, of course. But Johnson's last request is granted. Rather than hang, he asks the District Officer to shoot...
Sandrino has one eye on revenge and the other on the girl across the street when Virginia suddenly announces that she is pregnant. In a grisly finale, Sandrino impales her head on a pike fence till it becomes a slippery, lifeless pulp...