Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comedy reared its head on Saturday last when Lt. Beckham, he of the "press fearing" Floridans, was greeted by a goodly supply of crying towels and--an inspiring love poem, signed by a mysterious unknown, "the Light." We have no information as to the identity of this modern Shakespeare, but who among us is unfit, by official recognition, for a post-war naval career...
Last week slim, dark-haired George Paxton, 30, joined the glossy fraternity of "name-band" ' leaders. Simultaneously, Paxton's financial backer began to look forward to dividends on a $35,000 investment. All in a breathless few days the young man who was unknown as a bandleader a year ago: 1) got the Glenn Miller trophy for the best new band of the year; 2) signed with Columbia Pictures; 3) added the Los Angeles Palladium Ballroom to bookings at Manhattan's coveted Paramount Theater and Pennsylvania Hotel...
With most rosters as full of unknown names as Y.M.C.A. hotel registers, everybody agreed that the caliber of big-league 1945 baseball would be somewhere between AA and A-but it would still be baseball...
Amid the intrigues of Nazi generals and an assorted collection of actresses, Gestapo agents, hostesses, and underground agents (all thrown in to confuse the plot and slow up the action), Martin, who is important to the Allies for some unknown reason, tries to make his escape from the carefully guarded, Hotel Berlin. In the same surroundings, a Nazi general is purged for his part in the plot on Hitler's life and an old, tottering room clerk becomes drafted into der Fuehrer's army in the picture's only humorous scene...
...knotty problem of providing "food, work and homes." The first incumbent would have to be an architect in ideas-and a nonparty man, since no one knew what party would execute his program. For a soup-tasting, handshaking "kind uncle" like Woolton, this was a long leap into the unknown. Reluctantly, and only on Churchill's insistence, he accepted...