Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom have the trials of a movie exhibitor been dramatized with such Aeschylean awfulness as by Manager W. H. M. Watson in last fortnight's Motion Picture Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three...
...Watson's first attempts to cope with aggressive adolescence usually misfired. "I am not," he writes sadly, "a wrestler or bouncer . . . and sitting behind a theater desk for about 25 years does not make a man in the pink." He picked up a bit of judo from a sailor and "this worked-sometimes." But once Manager Watson was thrown out of his own theater by one of his customers, and "that is bad for business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work...
James Eli Watson, oratorical, jowl-shaking Republican Senator for 17 years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party...
...Marshal wanted the record straight. To make sure, he gave an interview last week to the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, the Baltimore Sun's Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...
Married. Marion Wick Kelly, 26, widow of the late, famed U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr., bomber of the Jap battleship Haruna; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Watson Pedlow, 35, peacetime chemical engineer (American Viscose Corp.); in Crozierville, Pa. The mother of three-year-old Colin III ("Corky," nominated for West Point by President Roosevelt in a letter to the U.S. President of 1956), observed: ". . . You can never forget the past. . . . But . . . life will and must go on ... while you need not deliberately seek new ties you must not erect false barriers against them. . . . Lieut. Pedlow will...