Marshall Rises In Rank

At Fort Screven Marshall was put in charge of Civilian Conservation Corps which proposed to employ thousands of idle young men in planting trees and saving marginal land from floods and erosion The Army’s role was to mobilize, organize and administer a civilian force.
On being promoted as a colonel he took up the command of [...]

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A Love Poem to my wife

Three Little Words
There was something determined
So it seemed,
Between living and dreaming
Of man’s estate;
That I knew was written
To the measured beats
Of an angelic Hymnal :
I Love Thee
The words were emblazon’d
Among stars.
Love, you were the blessed,
The Queen of the Day
Surrounded by bridesmaids
And I swept you off.
Past the threshold we crossed
Never to part, we said.
Yes, the vows we [...]

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Best Years Of Our Lives-1946

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is a film about three servicemen trying to readjust their lives after coming home from World War II. This is a companion piece to Mrs Miniver(1942) also by the same director. For a third world audience these films may not seem as much relevant as for the American [...]

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Those Who Serve etc.,

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Arturo Rubinstein in order to pracise for a concert instructed his butler Francois not to let in any caller; he was to tell the caller that he was not at home. When the telephone rang Francois dutifully answered the woman at the other end as was instructed with the crashing chords of the maestro coming [...]

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Marx Brothers

Groucho Marx:
The comic actor had to pull strings in the right places to gain a membership in the Friars Club in Hollywood. After becoming a member he promptly resigned, explaining,”I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.’
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During the darkest days of rationing Oscar Levant, the pianist flew [...]

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Bernard,the wit

Tristan Bernard, the wit
After much persuasion from his well wishers and a fellow playwright Maurice Sonray he put in an application for admission to Academie Française which he later withdrew remarking,’the costume costs too much; I will wait until someone dies who is my size.’
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His utter disregard for money once invited criticism
from his lawyer who [...]

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George C. Marshall-anecdotes

After the First World War Marshall a temporary colonel was chosen as the aide to Pershing a job which he held for 5 years.Not longer after Pershing became the Chief of Staff he proposed a change in the procedure of the war department which General March, his predecessor with whom he was not in good [...]

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How Green Was My Valley-1941

How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by the author Richard Llewellyn. Its success spawned sequels.  Darryl F. Zanuck paid $300,000 for the rights to the novel. The successful 1941 film was based on the book and was directed by John Ford.
The author’s claims to have based it on his own knowledge [...]

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Who Is In Control?

Monk Anselmo was a young man who idled his time since his skills were not much appreciated in the court of King Pipin the Hot. He ruled  the Kingdom of Blissfully Ignorant. King Pepin barely learnt to read or write and yet he had great ambitions. Having heard of the great library of Alexandria he [...]

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The Seventh Seal-1956

The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet)
“All my films can be thought in black and white,…” so wrote Bergman in Images: My Life in Films. I cannot think of this film in color especially since I first came across the iconic still from the film, of Death in black and the knight in white playing [...]

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