Word: tors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisenhower. Probably the greatest fac tor of all in the victory, and certainly the most encouraging for the future of the United Nations, was the unity of all arms, of all nations, of all commanders, of all units participating on the Allied side. This unity had to be achieved after some initial difficulties, and it was largely the handiwork of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. As commander of the whole Allied effort, he has kept himself rigidly out of the limelight, has exercised the greatest possible tact, and has contributed many ideas (the forced march of U.S. troops from El Guettar...
Seven Days Leave (RKO-Radio). In this musical lalapalooza, it is Private View tor Mature's business to woo and wed Lucille Ball during his brief army leave, in order to fulfill a codicil in eccentric Grandfather's will and inherit $100,000. The various soldierly and legal comics who help him are so neolithic that Mr. Mature at his best seems no worse than a particularly acute touch of Hodgkin's disease. Lucille Ball looks patient, tired, a little frightened. As her young sister, 17-year-old Newcomer Marcy McGuire makes a charming jitterbug for those...
...microcosmic study of the world going fascist and I was glad to pay the price of a moderate amount of such listening for information on the technique of cultural penetration and on the proper use of the so-called setter people of a community in preparation tor the coming of the Nazis...
...Turks know Ismet Inönü, secondly, as the man who was Kamâl Atatürk's trusted lieutenant in civil life. Kamâl Atatürk was a man of great ideas, but of little method. Inönü was his administra tor. Whether it was separating Church and State, freeing women from the veil, changing the alphabet from Arabic to Latin, building a railroad system without foreign capital, deodorizing all public buildings, or raising a new capital at Ankara Inönü set up the machinery...
...Beautiful People has a boozy, poetical father (Curtis Cooksey) living with an adolescent son and daughter in a decaying mansion on a San Francisco hill. They are supported by a monthly pension check mistakenly addressed tor a dead man. The daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York...