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...Staff Sergeant...
Tripoli's story is the old one about the ex-Marine (Minor Watson) who dumps his playboy son (John Payne) on his old sergeant pal (Randolph Scott) to be made a man of. It ambles through a romance with an almost unbearably beautiful nurse (Maureen O'Hara), a fight, a near court-martial, a rescue at sea. They make a Marine out of the young scamp, all right, but it hardly seems worthwhile, cinematically...
...Didn't take him long to make good in the mining game; one of the best geologists in the West, and when the War broke out he was earning big money. He enlisted as a private in one of the first engineering regiments going over. Was made a sergeant, got in the mix-up at Cambrai. He says for an hour they had rail connections to Berlin, having connected their track to the German track in their advance. Assigned as Master Engineer, instructor in our line of work and now is first lieutenant. They had to drag him into...
...blinked, ducked in terror when photographers' flashlights blazed in her face. With imperial MacArthurian self-possession, Arthur marched with his mother through the generals and the crowd to a car where 6-ft. 3-in. Sergeant Donald Broe, of Waterloo, Ia., proudly waited to drive the General behind the four-starred flag on the hood. But the General stayed behind, followed later in a car with the two-starred flag of a major general. In the crowd, General MacArthur spotted Press Officer Lloyd Lehrbas, who covered Washington affairs for the Associated Press when MacArthur was Chief of Staff...
Nephew of the former French ambassador, and prize protege of Coach Lamar, Bullitt without a falter cleaned up in the trial elimination series for the New England championship and entered the open competition. Defeating three local boys from the Boston area and a sergeant from Fort Devens, he climbed to the finals where he faced Jimmy Sauer, Golden Gloves champ in the 135 pound department who was considered one of the outstanding amateurs of the year...