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...prim New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March) ran afoul of a witch (Veronica Lake) in a hayloft and had her and her supernatural father (Cecil Kellaway) burned alive and buried, for safekeeping, under the roots of an oak. The doomed witch cursed him and his male issue with disaster in love. The curse holds better & better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes...
...good line from Witch Lake: "Ever hear of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd"). But Clair's shrewish fiancée is a malicious description of an All-American female type; the abortive wedding is vintage Clair; and the lethally heavy quartered-oak set in which this love feast takes place packs enough documentary U.S. satire to stock a whole volume of Sinclair Lewis...
...opposed to the wealth of capable replacements in the backfield, the Ann Arbor team has to rely on "Seven Oak Posts," a number of whom are being mentioned for all-American honors, in the line. "Ox" Wistert, left tackle, is the only player who played against Harvard...
...Oak Park, Ill., high-school boys took to bleaching odd patterns in their hair without quite knowing...
...Squadron's job was the evacuation of MacArthur, his family and staff. As described by Bulkeley and Kelly it is a mixture of daring and humor, of the Navyman's good-natured contempt for the Army and respect for its leader. Aboard the PTs, gold braid and oak leaves, drenched with roaring spray, were not in their element. "I noticed a figure by the machine-gun turret," says Kelly. "His stomach was long ago empty, but he was leaning forward, retching between his knees." Kelly told a quartermaster to help him below, got the answer: "The general says...