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Hint. At Fort Bliss, Tex., Private Harry Hammond, who had made excuses to a girl friend for not writing or telephoning more frequently, got a present from her: a homing pigeon...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...
...Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently excited." And she is painstaking. For the great sleepwalking scene in Macbeth she persuaded Johns Hopkins doctors to hypnotize a patient, and then copied the results...
Witnesses. In Hollywood, girl employes at Ollie Hammond's café described to police an escaped holdup man: brown sports coat, blue slacks, white shirt, lovely wavy brown hair, soulful brown eyes...
...Private Hammond symbolically went free in a jeep, the townspeople cheered. He still awaited the disciplinary verdict of Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz...