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...story: an unhappy 4-F (Fred Mac-Murray) is jilted by a toothsome, promiscuous USOgress (June Haver) who at tempts to demonstrate, by song and cumbrous dance routines, that morale means just One Thing to all men. The hero really loves the nice girl (Joan Leslie) who loves him, but he doesn't know it yet. He gets hold of a magic lamp in a scrap-salvage drive. The lamp breaks, and releases a gaily kosher genie (Gene Sheldon). The grateful genie gives him three wishes -which rather confusingly turn out to be four or five...
Lord Vansittart, long an exponent of intelligent toughness, observed that nothing could be "more ridiculous than trying major war criminals-those big shots-with cumbrous machinery." To him, the only problems were "the location of the gallows and the length of the drop...
...late in everything we undertake. . . . Secret and swift decision, sur prise and speedy action are essentials of success in the present war. This has been brilliantly illustrated in our campaigns in Africa, but you will not get it while you are dependent for decision and action on the cumbrous machinery of Whitehall. . . . One reason suggested for my dismissal was that I was too old (69) to lead shock troops, but the command of such a force does not necessarily mean leading it into action. This is a young man's war and my object was to give youth...
...Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace has probably laid the biggest egg. Weary Mr. Wallace, toiling like Tantalus in Hades, has pushed the farm problem up the hill countless times, only to have it roll back and crush him anew each & every time. Trapped in a six-year mesh of cumbrous grabbag legislation, alternately burned by droughts* and swamped by bounteous Nature's overproduction, still he comes up with a dogged smile, pushes his greying cowlick out of his eyes, and tackles the irresistible forces with new enthusiasm. But still U. S. farmers rate him low on all popularity polls...
...Advisory Council, without recommending that this cumbrous bin be thrown out altogether, proposed beginning at once to shovel less coal in, shovel more coal out. Instead of upping the present tax rates of 1% on employer and 1% on employe automatically to the maximum of 3% apiece by 1949 as the Act provides, the Council advised calling a halt for "further study" after they have been upped to 1½% January...