Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember the Day (20th Century-Fox) is a belated bow to the public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...
...Youngster officer-pilots of the new Philippine Air Force sailed into the Jap with a daring and skill that popped the eyes of their opposite numbers from the U.S. One army flight of three jumped 20 Jap planes, knocked out three, chased the rest, picked up a straggler on the way home and sent him down in flames. A bombing flight lumbered serenely through heavy ack-ack fire to unload on warships, then kicked off altitude and strafed a landing party on the beach...
...sultry Sunday morning in August 1928, a long-legged, eight-year-old youngster stood in his father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around...
...first day, a venturesome Red reconnaissance patrol penetrated Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken him to the prison camp." But the fact remained that Hugh Drum, by this and many another dodge that might have been employed against a real enemy, had won a battle...
Richard Dyer-Bennet, Lute Singer (Keynote album). Minstrelsy by a light-voiced youngster (TIME, Oct. 13), ranging from the 17th-Century Golden Vanity to a current Anzac favorite, The Swagman (or Waltzing Matilda...