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Murvyn Vye, "Oklahoma" alumnus, playing the villainous Jigger Craigin, stands alone from a cast of over 50 as the one realistic and well done character. From insults, "If thar's one thing uh can't stand . . . it's a common woman," to passionate lovemaking, "I'd swim through a sea o' beer for you . . . wit' me mout closed," Vye turns in the outstanding job of the entire performance...
...George S. Patton Jr., sick abed with a head cold, asked reporters: "Did my husband have to swim across [the Rhine...
General Patton was there when the doughs started across in boats just before dawn. They met heavy fire and he called them back. Then Patton, onetime (1912) Olympic athlete, told his men to take their rifles, bazookas and everything else they could carry, and swim. They looked at the ice-flecked waters, hesitated...
...General didn't. He walked in, began to swim, crossed to the other side, swam back. That was all the doughs needed. They piled in and swam across. A day and a half later Bettendorf was theirs...
...again, on-again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...