Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much-decorated combat veteran he would be eligible to retire with the rank of rear admiral (but with captain's pay), a special provision which only the Navy & Marines enjoy...
Straus Hall's Earl Burnett, a 20-year veteran, captains the janitors' team from his first base position. Husky six-footer Burnett, childhood playmate of famous Pirate third-sacker Pie Traynor and ex-Braves pitcher Danny McFayden, boasts a batting average...
...father, who was murdered by the gang for trying to report an extortion threat. Persuaded to organize the browbeaten community into resistance, Kelly is flung by the hoodlums into the first mass meeting, battered, bleeding and almost dead. Then he hits on the more cautious idea of sending a veteran Italian-American detective (J. Carrol Naish) to Italy to dig up criminal records that will enable the U.S. to deport its immigrant thugs...
Francis is played by a real Army veteran who underwent a 16-hour-a-day movie course with studio Trainer Jimmy Phillips. Recruited for the film from a Calabasas, Calif, mule dealer, he was dyed a darker hue from head to hoof, wore greasepaint on his mouth, powder on his nose, a "rat" in his tail, half-inch false eyelashes and-until he balked-extra-sized false ears. Like many a new-found star, patient Francis is currently making personal appearances with the picture...
...story ends with a tear-soaked scene in which the youngest Merrill boy holds Debby in his arms while she dies with the plea, "Let me go. I know a hiding place. Let me go. I got to hide." Debby will tug a few soft hearts among veteran circulating-library customers, but such experienced judges as Authors Porter, Wescott and Critic Jackson, who are supposed to use their heads as well as their hearts, still have some explaining...