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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi, Christine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Yes, your father-in-law's observations make a good point.
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">There was much truth in the British complaint that "the Yanks are overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here." (Americans, of course, countered with "the Brits are underpaid, underfed, undersexed, and under Eisenhower!")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I had never thought of the film angle that you bring up, but I think that is quite valid as well. Series creator and writer John Finch alludes to American movie stars in at least two places that I can recall.
In Episode No. 42 ("The Fundamental Things Apply"), </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Doris says that Freda thinks Ian Mackenzie is "Robert Taylor and Clark Gable rolled into one."</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> In Episode No. 31 ("I Wanted to Be
with You"), when </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Freda tells John that Clark Gable has joined up, John quips, “Oh, so that’s why the Germans have brought their reserves back from Stalingrad!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Richard Veit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Christine Kendell <christine.kendell@btopenworld.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"christine.kendell@btopenworld.com" <christine.kendell@btopenworld.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 8:14 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>AFAMILYATWAR-LIST <Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu>, "Richard_Veit@baylor.edu" <Richard_Veit@baylor.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: [Afamilyatwar-list] Episode 49<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hello Richard,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The ‘Yanks Go Home’ thing: in my father-in-law’s memoir he mentions being annoyed by the presence of GIs, who always seemed to have nylon stockings and chocolate to give to local girls! I suppose
girls might be dazzled by accents they had heard in films, as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Christine</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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