Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perfect Furlough, in which part of the chatter has to do with sending "do-it-yourself" kits to the sex-starved personnel of an Army radar station in Alaska. (Article V, Section 2: "Obscenity in words . . . even when likely to be understood by only part of the audience, is forbidden...
...Patti Page Show (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Talented Singer Steve Lawrence, at present a U.S. Army private at Fort Dix, uses up part of his furlough time warbling with Smoothie Songstress Page...
...year-old father with chronic heart trouble expected his oldest son to support the family. When the son abruptly left home to join the Navy, the father felt hopeless and his condition worsened. After the son wrote that he would not come home on his first furlough, the father wound up in the hospital. A day later he died of ventricular fibrillation...
...once-proud German army in shattered retreat, its beaten soldiers yearning only for a hunk of bread and a hole in which to hide from the Russian artillery. But somebody forgot that there was a war on: the hero (John Gavin), a dutiful Wehrmacht private, gets a three-week furlough back to Germany, and from there on, the movie sputters like a jeep on kerosene...
Infantryman Eisenhower was assigned to Stateside training, but first got a month's furlough to serve as aide to his father during the Allied drive across France. After the war, traveling with Ike, John watched parades in Moscow with Stalin, danced with Princess Margaret at Balmoral Castle. Promoted to captain in 1946, he commanded U.S. garrison troops in Austria, in Vienna met, wined and dined and soon married (1947) Barbara Jean Thompson, slim, calm, brunette daughter of an Army colonel...