Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love (blonde, queenly Alexis Smith) and the facts of Corbett's life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...
Best new children's game is Ranger Commandos, a parchesi-type in which little barges set out across open water, zigzag to landings, and move little wooden commando pieces inland to destroy such objectives as a tank factory, railroad yards, munitions plant, etc. Players return posthaste, unless captured, whenever any player lands on a spot marked with an enemy sentry. First one back with the most points of destruction wins...
...that has not yet been fully recognized is the Navy's V-1 program which is still open because it recruits seventeen year olds. At present the Manpower Commission has not authority to deal with students of this age and unless this is soon remedied the Navy might unintentionally destroy the balance of manpower the newly appointed commission is striving to create...
...Against attack the Swiss have aces to play. They would destroy the three great Alpine tunnels, Lotschberg, St. Gotthard and Simplon. Man for man, Switzerland probably has the second best army in Europe today. Its general staff, under sagacious, diminutive, popular General Henri Guisan (the fourth general in Swiss history),* has built in the Alps a kernel of defense which an army thrice the size of the Swiss Army (600,000 men) might need valuable months to crack. The Swiss Army can be mobilized in half an hour...
German munition factories are very easy to destroy in Hollywood, since the union only allows them to have one guard at the door. After the plant is in flames however, a few Nazis appear and our heroes blast them to hell with deadly aim. Flynn is able to pick up a woman who leads them to safety...