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Americans read the names of the boys who made the first big U.S. air raid on Europe, the bombing of Rouen. One of them, Lieut. Thomas Borders, 25, of Birmingham, had played tackle on Alabama's 1938 Rose Bowl team. The list sounded like the roster of an Ail-American eleven...
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, Secretary since 1930 of the Ail-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, is a big man in his home country, a great man for telling Soviet workmen a thing or two. Sole survivor of the Central Council purge of 1937, he has since expounded the line at home that the more Russia becomes socialized the more energy workers should spend on cultural and political activities, the less agitation on hours and wages...
...picture (from a story by Paul Gallico) is a credit to all concerned- especially to Director Thorpe and Producer Jack Chertok, Scenarist Allen Rivkin, pretty Mother Hunt, and Mechanic Young, who plays his Ail-American role with likable, natural, easygoing familiarity. Not a high-powered movie, it is a first-rate die for the new propaganda models which Hollywood is readying for mass production...
...Sprechstimme) to the fevered sounds of eight strings and woodwinds (in various combinations). Modernist Schönberg's jittery measures, more talked about than listened to (Pierrot has had only two U.S. performances), here get their first recording, a fine example of what, 30 years ago, began to ail 20th-century music...
Three years ago, at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., Cartoonist Segar began to ail, died ten months later at the age of 43. King Features finally found a young Hungarian artist, Bela Zaboly, to draw the strip. Zaboly's Popeye no longer goes to sea on long, fantastic voyages of discovery. But Popeye has more customers than ever before: over 500 daily, 200 Sunday papers...