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...doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
Militarily the loss of Hong Kong means little. Its strategic value dwindled three years ago, when Japan blockaded the mainland side of the settlement. British strategists last week concentrated on Singapore, 1,454 miles to the south, kissed off Hong Kong with fervent compliments to the heroic defenders. Continued defense of the island had one great boon: a diversion of Japanese strength, however small...
...deprive . . . all humanity of the beneficial influence of the long peace between our two countries. . . . We have hoped for a termination of the present conflict between Japan and China. We have hoped that a peace of the Pacific could be consummated. . . . I address myself to Your Majesty . . . in the fervent hope that Your Majesty may, as I am doing, give thought in this definite emergency to ways of dispelling the dark clouds...
Seasoned by many emergencies, the news staffs of the great networks were in top form by late afternoon. NBC scooped them all on Honolulu, bringing in at 4:06 an observer standing on the roof of the Honolulu Advertiser. His fervent assurance: "It is a real war; it is no joke." At 4:46 he gave the full story of what had happened at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Pearl Harbor...
...Moncado. Colorful Candidate Moncado, Philippine equivalent of Texas' Pappy O'Daniel, is married to pretty Diana Toy, onetime Hollywood bit player who is now Manila's favorite radio singer. He took his wife with him to rallies, looked on with a smile as she led his fervent followers in The Moncado March...