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Fellow flyers ascribe McCampbell's success to: 1) crack marksmanship, 2) "more goddamned guts than any man you ever saw," 3) a sober regard for the enemy that keeps him primed for battle ("I have been shot full of holes three times but never shot down," says McCampbell, "and I never forget that"). But probably the biggest reason for it is that he fights for all he is worth. After one battle, the other pilots in his squadron returned with an average of 20 gallons of gasoline and 100 rounds of ammunition; McCampbell, who had his command...
...solidest single achievement of the movie, in fact, is to give the Smiths something to be sorry about: the real love story is between a happy family and a way of living. Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period. Now & then, too, the film gets well beyond the charm of mere tableau for short flights in the empyrean of genuine domestic poetry. These triumphs are creditable mainly to the intensity and grace of Margaret O'Brien and to the ability of Director...
...Live Sober & Like...
Herr X was a lawyer, fortyish, balding, apparently pleased by his new masters, a little uneasy about the old. The record showed that he was neither Nazi nor Communist, just a solid, sober citizen who minded his own affairs. His conduct under Hitler seemed to have been as anti-Nazi as was consistent with safety...
...revolutionary program of re-education," aimed to present the Negro (in books, newspapers, movies, texts) to the public in a fair, sober light. "The university of the arts has permitted Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and Roland Hayes to 'convert' many hostile persons. Jesse Owens . . . Joe Louis . . . George Washington Carver . . . have provided the first jolt to many minds steeped in stereotyped ideas...