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When you look at the list of real-life characters portrayed in Robert Mont
gomery’s ’’The Gallant Hours,"it reads like a Who's.Who of the Pacific War. In
addition to James Cagney as Adm, "Bull" Halsey, there are actcrs cast as Adm-?
irals Chester Nimitz, Ernest J. King, D.J. Callaghan, Norman Scott,G.D. Murray,
R.L^Ghormley, Maj. ,Gen. Archie Vandergrift, Maj.Gen, Roy Geiger, Lt.Col.Eveans
Carlson amd Maj.Joe Foss, all fimiliar names to anyone familiar with the- battle
for Guadacanal. ’ ‘ ,. ,
Armed Forces day say Glenn Ford,, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve,
emceeing open house activities at the Point Magu, Calif.,Pacific Missile Range.
And Memorial ^ay found that traveling-man—with-the-gat, Richard Boone, deliver
ing the Gettysburg Address at the VA cemetery in Los Angeles••then "there’s foot—
lights virtuoso Hal Holbrook ^oing his one-man "Mark Twain Tonight" show for
Camp Lejune, N.C.....and trumpet-bandsman Harry James and Charlie Spivak booked
with their great music-makers into the Great Lakes, 111. NTC... .’.and Victor ■ Jeff
Hunter,, currently in ^Sergeant Rutledge," itoho claims to descend from President
Zachary Taylor, which is a nice claim, ' ;
All the drum throbbing in advance of Frank Sinatra’s "Welcome Home Elvis"show
got it a huge TV audience, but the Old Soldier himself looked a bit uncomfort
able amid all the fanfare and what sounded like dubbed—in squealing from bobby
soxers you.never- saw......death of Prince Aly Kahn in an auto craGk up recalls
the time he visited a Navy carrier in the Med with bride Rita Hayworth,The crew
of 2,200,had been warned hot to beseige Rita for autographs, so they let off
stram by piping the royal newlyweds aboard with wolf calls.**..it didn’t bother
Aly a bit. "If they hadn’t done that," he told the. skipper, ♦"I-’d* thought there
was something wrong with the U.S. Navy, or with me." 1
TOPS IN POPS; . "Cathy’s Clown" the Everly Brothers nudges Elvis Presley’s
"Stuck on You" out of the lead*spot on '"Billboard Magazine" Honor Roll, with
third place again going to* "Greenfields" by Brothers Four.Coming up behind thejgj.
are "Sixteen Reasons "(Connie Stevens).; "Sink the Bismarck "(Johnny Horton) ;'"Good
Timin*' ’’ (Jimmy Jones); "Night" (Jackie Wilson); "He;* 11 Have To Stay" (.Jeanne
Black); "Love You So"(Ron Holden; and "The Old Lamplighter" (Browns).
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