Word: wildering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admiral had hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known as the "Thach weave...
...Authors Campbell and Robinson agitated literary teacups by asserting that Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth was only "an Americanized recreation, thinly disguised" of Finnegans Wake (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942). Retorted Playwright Wilder: "All I can say is to urge those who are interested to read Finnegans Wake and make up their minds for themselves...
Double Indemnity (Paramount) is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama. James M. Cain's novelette was carnal and criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...
Scripter Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) is himself no mean writer of hard-boiled melodrama. With his help Director Wilder and his players manage admirably to translate into hard-boiled cinema James Cain's hard-boiled talents...
...Detroit, and Carl O. Tolf, Jr., Naval ROTC, Park Ridge, Ill., Coolidge Debating Prizes of $100 each. Jack M. Fein '45, East Chicago, Ind., $75 Susan A. Potter Prize in Spanish Literature. Caldwell Titcomb '47, Augusta, Me., Carl Schurz Prize for excellence in German. Peter Flanders '47, Elizabeth Wilder Prize for excellence in German...