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Last Sunday, Bill Cunningham lashed out in a vicious attack on "those mighty minds who are already telling us what sort of a peace we should have," in a language which is remindful of Hitler's newspaper stooges at their worst. While he probably meant well, his copy is nevertheless stimulating to those whose patriotic spirit is only as deep as their war paint. These people represent as dangerous an element in the long run as the enemy agents who even now may be planning the sabotage of the Watertown arsenal. And his hysterical arguments will serve only to convince...
This column does not pretend to own a crystal ball; nor can it attempt to draw up any blueprints. But, on the other hand, we are willing to challenge sportswriter Bill Cunningham's attitude toward post-war planners. That popular scribe flashily dismisses the whole matter saying, "It's nice of them to do the heavy thinking while somebody else does the heavy fighting, but their hot air hangs like a steam curtain between the effort and the ultimate...
...Since capture at Wake the prisoners, including myself, have been very fairly treated and are all in good health and are looking forward to getting back to their homes" (Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, U.S.N...
Critics of this preponderance have lately become vigorous. Sports Writer Bill Cunningham, discovering daytime radio with a shock, snorted last month in the Boston Herald: "Try driving 400 miles, as I did yesterday, with nothing but the radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone...
...reported firsthand almost every big British naval action in the,, Mediterranean. In March, when the British in one night in the Battle of Matapan knocked out an Italian battleship and sank a half-dozen cruisers and destroyers, Correspond ent Allen got a grandstand view from the bridge of Admiral Cunningham's flagship Warspite. He was with the British squad ron which blasted 5,000 Nazi troops at tempting a surprise landing at Crete...