Word: canales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procession was crossing the wooden footbridge over the 130-ft.-wide Gorzone Canal, the children had reached the second verse, which begins: "And When in Heaven Together We'll Sing." Before the eyes of parents watching the procession, two wooden pillars supporting the middle of the bridge buckled and crashed. Don Moses and 72 little girls fell 25 feet into the canal...
...Democratic Governor John Woodrow Bonner, 47, on his way to Biloxi, Miss, to make a speech, ran into a spot of trouble in New Orleans' French Quarter. New Orleans Cab Driver Philip Bellinger tried to piece together the story for reporters: "This guy came up to me on Canal Street. He was kinda stinkin', I guess. He told me he was the governor of Montana. We got a lot of tourists get to thinking they're governor sometime or other. I didn't believe this guy, but I told him I'd help...
...take care of point one by casting steel-eyed John Wayne in the role of tough Sergeant. It is only a matter of minutes before you are led to realize that this man is a True Marine, who has seen action on Guadalcanal (referred to with reverence as "The 'Canal"). It is also explained clearly that his wife has deserted him in some dastardly fashion, taking his ten-year-old son, his pride and joy. (That's why he's tough, see). But it isn't until halfway between the Tarawa and Iwo campaigns that he shows his true nobility...
...Wayne's home life weren't enough, one of his men is an earnest youth who hates the Corps but feels he must carry on the tradition of his Colonel father, killed on The 'Canal. The young man's lack of adjustment causes all sorts of bad feeling, but is resolved in very moving fashion. Sergeant Wayne gets his just as Old Glory goes up over Mount Surabachi, and his squad takes a breather to read an unfinished letter he has been writing his little boy. The young man is so moved by this epistle that he forgets his neurosis...