Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doolittle in the North African campaign. Of his service in North Africa, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote: "[He] so impressed me with his alertness, grasp of problems, and personality that I never thereafter lost sight of him." In 1944 he became Arnold's chief of staff in the Twentieth Air Force, helped direct the unprecedented, long range B-29 raids, including the first A-bomb drops on Japan...
Three different men contributed points against Brown. Number two man Bill McAllister and Bob Ornsteen at number three both beat their opponents one up on the twentieth hole...
...week's end TV began acting its age again with the Ford Star Jubilee production of Hecht & MacArthur's Twentieth Century, starring Orson Welles and Betty Grable. The 24-year-old farce about how an unsuccessful theatrical impresario (Welles) gets together with his old flame, a successful movie star (Grable) on the Twentieth Century Limited between Chicago and New York is still young and funny. The plot is zany yet convincing, the characters oddballs yet winning (including an alcoholic pressagent and a lovable lunatic), the lines still fresh ("What a perfect death scene," sighs the star. "So simple...
These prophecies are neither reckless nor novel. Most of us are aware that the heat generated by our recent national election campaigns arises largely from conflicts only remotely related to the great issues around which the history of the second half of the twentieth century will ultimately be written. We have become accustomed to this state of affairs, and only rarely do we bother to ask ourselves what can be done about...
Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Twentieth Century, with Orson Welles, Betty Grable, Keenan Wynn...