Word: willful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The army's slum corps are only its front line. The man who staggers drunkenly to its altar can count on the army's trying its best to rehabilitate him, feed him, shelter him and get him a job. If he is unemployable, the army will probably employ...
Besides Studio One (sponsored by Westinghouse), Miner also produces for CBS-TV The Goldbergs and a weekly children's show, Mr. I. Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m.), which is a good deal better than its coy title. He sees TV as more closely related to the theater than to...
Oakey L. Alexander, president of Virginia's Pocahontas Fuel Co., Inc., shocked his friends last week as much, he said, as if "Harry Truman had joined the Young Republican Club." The boss of one of the biggest U.S. soft-coal producers went into the oil business. With California Oil...
The dialogue is a lot less convincing, though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an...
During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or...