Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became an overseas gag that a WAC who had done nothing more than commute to & from the Pentagon could hardly miss at least three awards: the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, the Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Ribbon. Totals ran so high that the wartime U.S. could not afford the metal to strike the medals themselves, issued ribbons instead...
...story, this time, is about a hagridden fellow (Fred MacMurray) whose WAC wife (Paulette Goddard) uses every means to dodge giving him a divorce so that he can marry his girl friend (Arleen Whelan). Most of the plot complications center around Paulette's efforts to entice MacMurray back into her bed. The three sides of this triangle are more than reasonably heartless towards each other, but they are outdone in misbehavior by MacMurray's sleek companion (Macdonald Carey), who wants Miss Goddard for himself...
David Niven has chosen an admirable vehicle for his return to the American screen after a six-year absence, and he does full well by his opportunities as the flier on borrowed time. Kim Hunter, a newcomer, is equally well cast as the WAC. Her fresh and youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven...
...British-boy-meets-American-girl story is told with winning charm. David Niven is the British airman who finds himself falling in a burning plane. By radio, he shouts amorous-poetic speeches (he is certain they are his dying words) to a pretty WAC (Kim Hunter) on the landing field. Then he jumps-without parachute. Incredibly, he picks himself up uninjured except for a peculiar crack on the head that makes him imagine he is a fugitive from heaven. Throughout the film, the camera moves between a clinical study of lovesick Niven's brain disorder and the imaginary heaven...
...Stalin's birthplace in Georgia (Russia), made no comment on another correspondent's explanation of how Elliott's conversational digs at the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 9) got back home. The little bird who told, reported inside dopester Henry J. Taylor, was an Embassy secretary and ex-WAC named Ruth M. Briggs, who used to be Elliott's friend back in North Africa...