Word: applejack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ten weeks were up, the four met on the Fontainebleau estate of the Trib's European Edition Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr. to drink applejack and compare notes. They wrote three articles each, but nobody's drafts pleased anybody else. So they sat down and rewrote the series together, comma by comma; sometimes one sentence went through five versions. Joe Barnes ran the articles as cabled...
...breakdown of the statistics of the game show the Crimson gained 200 yards and one date with a Wellesleyite rushing. The passing attack of the junior misses failed in the heat, and the scoring laurels clearly went to a collection of non-collegiate rooters who stole the applejack in the water bucket early in the last period...
...account of that's the way Europeans eat, were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member of the team "Applejack," sent to France to destroy a key railroad tunnel and to pick up sundry vital information, who comes out alive...
Among those killed by the gestape are Geraldine Fitzgerald, who looks like Joan Crawford, talks like Katharine Hepburn, and gives a restrained and sound performance. As the only woman member of "Applejack" she performs many indispensable tasks, such as working her wiles on German colonels, with admirable results. In fact, her function in the picture is totally professional except for a few mildly affectionate scenes with Ladd squeezed in between auto chases and gun fights...
Land of Plenty. In the first place the people of this part of France are not hungry-far from it. This province is rich in milk, butter, cheese, eggs, beef, veal, cider, applejack and horseflesh. The countrymen are sturdy and long-lived. The women are as rosy-cheeked as the apples they pick, the children plump as pumpkins...