Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl in Every Port (RKO Radio] has Groucho Marx, but not much else, in its favor. Teamed with William Bendix, Groucho is a Navy veteran with a talent for swindling landlubbers. Starting with a race horse with bad legs, he launches a series of doubletalk deals that get him involved with gangsters, saboteurs, ringers and Marie Wilson. The plot, which limps as badly as Groucho's horse, fortunately has room for a number of familiar set pieces: Groucho confounding his Navy commander, Groucho playing a Kentucky colonel, Groucho leering at Marie Wilson. Director Chester Erskine, who also wrote...
...third Polish army veteran offered even graver evidence. He testified that he watched from hiding in a nearby tree in October 1939, when 200 Polish officers were slaughtered by Red army soldiers at Katyn. It was night time, he said, and the victims were led two by two to the edge of a huge ditch illuminated by floodlights. "First," he continued, "they tied the [victim's] hands together and then tilted the head back, and they packed sawdust into the victim's mouth. If he showed signs of collapsing while in their hands, they just kicked him into...
...Like a veteran, Arnall played cat & mouse with the OPS job offer. When he finally accepted it, he issued a statement that "in America someone must ever be willing to perform the difficult but tough, unpopular and thankless tasks." Some Washington hands think that he believes Truman will run and is simply getting on the bandwagon...
...cleared up one point. "Latest X rays show that there are not six babies but only five. That is definite." By a new calculation, the births should occur by Dec. 27, except that the drug had postponed them another 21 days. By then, Harry Reutlinger, managing editor and a veteran of 36 years on the paper, and Executive Editor Edward C. Lapping were getting even more suspicious than their readers. Last week they called in Reporter Stewart and ordered him to produce the mother-or else. Sadly, Reporter Stewart admitted the awful truth: the story was a fake...
...Navy veteran an da graduate of Northwestern...