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...Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...
...Detroit, pretty Miss Mary Grace Simescu, queen of the Automotive Golden Jubilee, sneaked out of her parents' house before dawn, met a handsome ex-Navy flier named Clifton W. Woodry, eloped with him. The parents were pleased but slightly bewildered. She had been engaged to him all the time...
...effect of realism, is heightened by the wide variety of characters brought into view: a Polish Jew, a German widow, a petty fascist, an English flier, etc. (English titles are provided for the eight foreign languages used in the background behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini...
Last week, accompanied by Captain John O'Connell, Jimmy arrived by clipper. Decorations won by his flier buddies covered his blue serge lapel. Jimmy's thoughts, for once, were far from music. He said: "They let me hold the rudder and steer the ship, and my, that was a thrill...
...Scott, In Darr. These fiscal shenanigans were the climax in a two-year-old squabble between eccentric Mr. Scott and a lean, hard-headed ex-flier named Hal S. Darr, who now controls the company which Scott once owned and headed. Darr became board chairman in 1943. At that time the company was doing a $2,800,000-a-year business, principally with the Navy, and Scott was still the boss. But when he totted up the profits on his Navy business he found, what with renegotiation, ($300,000), taxes, etc. that he had only $90,000 left...