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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, was Noel Coward's profile of a British destroyer, In Which We Serve; best male performance was James Cagney's in Yankee Doodle Dandy, best job of direction John Farrow's of Wake Island. The Russian-made documentary, Moscow Strikes Back, won a special award as best "war fact" film. For top honors among actresses, the 18 voting critics passed over an armful of notables, chose a young woman whose name means nothing at all to most cinegoers: Agnes Moorehead. She played the pyrotechnic part of paranoiac Aunt Fanny in Orson Welles...
...Laval, who rose to the honor of a meeting with Hitler to which the tragicomic Benito Mussolini was not invited. If Hitler wins, Pierre Laval may yet be a successful man, Jean François Darlan's deal with General Eisenhower might have profited him eventually, but his award was an assassin's bullet...
...suggest that you publish the picture of General Yamashita as the man of 1942 on the basis of positive accomplishment, with the sincere hopes that he may have the "bad cess" which often comes to the winner of this award...
When a dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 10 replaced the annual Stockholm award of the Nobel prizes (discontinued since 1939), it was found that 28 laureates now live in the U.S., counting eleven who have recently arrived, most of them to escape Hitler. Eleven attended the dinner...
Highest U.S. award is the Congressional Medal of Honor, which President Roosevelt conferred last week on two heroic officers of the Battle of Guadalcanal: posthumously to his onetime White House aide, Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan, and Rear Admiral Norman Scott. Cited also for the Medal of Honor was Commander Bruce McCandless, the 31-year-old communications officer who took command of the cruiser San Francisco when Admiral Callaghan and the captain were killed. Said the President to Lieut, (j.g.) Daniel J. Callaghan Jr.: "And so, Jud, I give you the finest thing that has ever been given to your...