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CAIRO--RAF fighter planes shot down or damaged 30 Axis raiders over Malta Sunday and American heavy bombers blasted an enemy convey south of Crete as the Germans, stalled in Russia, showed signs of shifting their weight across the Mediterranean for a possible winter campaign in Africa...
...grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together, and something, too, of what they are doing...
Radio's Superman must have a greater respect for rationalities than he has in comics or movies. Though he can still whiz through the air or break down a wall with his fist, he can push over no buildings, perform no miracles that sound cannot easily convey. Clayton's transformation from the scoop-seeking reporter, Clark Kent, to the mythical Man of Iron is accomplished by carefully deepening his voice and having all companions faint, while he slips on Superman clothes. Superman's monologues must be cut to a minimum, suspense maintained by worrying listeners...
...terse bread-&-butter note which Churchill sent to Host Stalin on leaving Moscow: "I take the opportunity to thank you for your friendly attitude and hospitality. I am highly satisfied that I have visited Moscow. . . . I am sure that our contact will be useful for the common cause. Please convey my regards to Mr. Molotov...
...immortal, androgynous hero (Mrs. Woolf's friend, Victoria Sackville-West) is watched from the age of Queen Elizabeth into a night in 1928. In The Years Virginia Woolf used death and time chiefly by implication, and discarded all experiments. She was able at last, using traditional forms, "to convey her unique sensibility by sheer luminosity of language." And Between The Acts managed (not quite successfully, Mr. Daiches feels) to create an image of the whole past and present of England and resolve its mysteries and disparities in a nameless piece of music: "Was it Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart...