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Other difficulties have also beset potential chroniclers of the doings of the A-L mob. For instance, there's the darndest amount of hush-hush which must surround our pursuits (including the extra-curricular ones, of course). All we can say is that the boys are learning xxxx xxxx xxxx, and studying all there is to know about...
...There I was right on the fifty-yard line of the darndest dogfight you ever saw. Zeros and American planes were thicker than flies at suppertime. They were all shooting - seemed to be shooting at me. My burns weren't hurting much, but I was pretty sure they would after a while, so I pulled out my first-aid kit and had myself a shot of morphine. I worked my way down out of the dogfights and was ready to say 'safe at last' again, when three Zeros came down...
...situation here at home is most serious, and that by such legislation [to give jobs to returning soldiers without making them join unions] our Congress could free honest labor from racketeers and parasites. ... I am not a labor hater. I believe in honest labor unions who are doing their darndest to turn out the weapons we need...
...labor hater. I believe in honest labor unions who are doing their darndest to turn out the weapons we need. . . . But haunting me ... today is the problem on the home front. We must learn to work, work and more work-save and save-if we are to be honest to our God and to those men over there...
...This Gun for Hire," though given second billing at the U. T., easily surpasses its dyspeptic counterpart. Alan Ladd grimly and effectively stalks his way through a difficult and interesting role, with various and sundry saboteur doing their darndest to stop him. Ladd himself makes the picture what it is, and his sensitive portrayal of a different kind of ruthless killer marks him an actor to be watched. Veronica Lake is here, too. There must be something nice to say about her presence in the film, but all we can think of right now is--well, Veronica Lake is here...