Word: straits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hindsight, Karig's history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle in Mindoro Strait: "It looked like hell upside down...
Married. James Maitland ("Jimmy") Stewart, 41, lanky, bashful filmland Galahad (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Strait on Story), wartime Air Forces colonel and bomber group commander; and Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; she for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...Last week some visitors were crossing Cabot Strait, 100 miles by ferry to Port aux Basques, where they took the 547-mile-long narrow-gauge railway to the capital city of St. John's (pop. 56,000). Others flew to Gander Airport. Still others sailed through the narrow channel that leads to St. John's landlocked harbor...
Concealed in that intention, of course, is an insult of the grossest nature; for the assumption behind these attacks is that American students are incapable of judging idea for themselves, that they are, in fact, quite willing to submit to mental strait-jackets...
...showings to make up their minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...