Major Barbara speaking (1941)
The beauty of diction in her speech and their conversation is wonderful. Whatever you think of what they're saying, the way they speak is so ...
Meet John Doe: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart (1941 Movie)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and ...
A Few Final Tidbits About Ted Williams
On this day 70 years ago, Ted Williams said, “[insert 1940s expletive here] it. I’m playing in the doubleheader against the Philadelphia A’s, even if it costs me a .400 season.” None of that sitting-out stuff for the Red Sox legend. He got paid to play ball, and he was going to play ball.
And because he was one of the greatest hitters who ever lived, he went 6 for 8 in that 1941 twinbill to finish at .406. No one has batted .400 since in the major leagues, which suggests that – barring a rule change such as the outlawing of the breaking ball – no one may ever do it again.
I wrote about Williams in Tuesday’s paper. But I wanted to blog about him a little more today because he was such a fascinating guy – in every sense. Besides, I had some material left over that might interest you.
After my Teddy Ballgame piece was posted on The Washington Times website, John Underwood, his Boswell, emailed me a story he’d forgotten to tell when we’d talked a few days before. Here it is:
Major Barbara 1941 - Bookshelf
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Bernard Shaw on cinema [Promoting Major Barbara in America] (P/X/TL to Marjorie Deans, 25 January 1941/ DHL)1 Tell all these people, with the utmost possible hauteur, ... |
Major Barbara 1941 - News
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Postcards from Seattle's Past: 1960-1941 Photo: Seattle Post-Intelligencer / SL First Seafair queen, 1950: Carrying flowers at her coronation in Seattle's Civic Auditorium, Barbara Curtis, Seafair Queen of the Seas, mounts the stage to meet King Neptune the First. Escorting her at right is |
Robin Gibb, pioneer of disco, dies at 62
Seeking to move beyond the Australian market, they returned to the UK in the mid-60s and had their first major hit with New York Mining Disaster 1941, which reached the Top 20 in both the UK and US. A later single, To Love Somebody, was co-written by
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Sixth-generation Galvestonians are hard to come by By June 26, 1941, Barbara Bornefeld had finished two years at the University of Texas, pledged Kappa, made her debut at the Galveston Artillery Club, married Walter A. Kelso Jr., moved into a new brick home her husband and his father's company had |
Seldon L. Brown Sr.
He attended Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. until November 1941 at which time he enlisted in the Marine Corp. He was a Japanese interpreter and sniper in campaigns at Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan-Tinian and received a Purple Heart and Battle
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Defense Policy Bill The House will consider issues big and small in a major defense policy bill that is now before lawmakers. Listed below are the 141 amendments made in order - everything from forcing a withdrawal from Afghanistan to very parochial issues back at home. |
