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...That word - "ultimately." Welcome to the philosophical disconnect between the U.S. watchdogs and their counterparts across the pond. Any U.S.-Europe trade war over mergers like these will have its roots in the aftermath of another war, namely WWII. After surviving Germany, European officials were constitutionally afraid of dominant single companies largely because of their potential warmaking uses...
...exquisite at it. The Harvard-educated Lemmon returned from his stint as a Navy ensign in WWII and told his father he was trying acting full-time. His father loaned him $300 and Lemmon (his real name, though Columbia studio boss Harry Cohn tried to make him change it for his first Hollywood role, the lead opposite Judy Holliday in the musical comedy "It Should Happen...
...Grand Guy" makes it clear that Southern's finest creation was himself. The small-town Texan essentially reinvented himself after serving in WWII (he took part in the Battle of the Bulge), and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to study at the Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...
...second-largest dinosaur ever to walk the earth. Dubbed Paralititan stromeri (the first name means "tidal giant"; the second refers to Ernst Stromer, a geologist who found dinosaur fossils in the area in the 1930s and took them to Germany, only to have them destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII) this long-necked, plodding sauropod munched on lush ferns and trees in an area that 90 million years ago was, according to discoverer Joshua B. Smith "dinosaur heaven...
...Laming, Chaykin and company have already packed in enough for several other lesser titles. The first page of issue one starts us off in 1949 and sets the tone. As a man and woman reach climax inside a pretty, white, suburban house, we see the woman's husband, former WWII pilot Harry Block, popping pills and imagining pointing his commercial jetliner into a nosedive...