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Raymond Ames Spruance, a taciturn, 57-year-old Hoosier, commands the great fleet which began blasting its way last week into the Marshalls. In the estimate of one of his superiors Spruance is a "coldblooded, fighting fool." It is his carriers, capital ships, cruisers, destroyers which pour the steel into Jap installations, kindling the hot little islands, softening them up for the crawling crocodile fleet of landing boats...
...before the break, 90 officers of the GOU (Gobierno, Orden, Unidad), the Army clique which has bossed the Government of President Ramirez, were called to a meeting in the Municipal Building. Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert, hitherto no friend of the U.S., but no fool either, made a brief and urgent speech. The officers listened in frigid silence. Then Gilbert left for the Foreign Office, where he moaned: "I am in the battle of my life...
Last week at Camp Swift, Tex., the traveling faculty of the Engineers' special school of mines was giving its 14th intensive course in mines, booby traps and how to fool them. The students: 200 officers of other combatant branches, who will pass on to their own troops the Army's hardbought education in enemy wiles...
...Easy. For weeks, landing craft cluttered up Allied-held harbors in the south. Countless Italians bandied the news, until it seeped across the front line to the Germans, across the Mediterranean to Algiers. Allied intelligence officers cursed, still hoped that the elements of surprise in time and place would fool...
Ramshackle Inn (by George Batson; produced by Robert Reud) brought Zasu Pitts, Hollywood's funny, fluttery fool, to Broadway on a sleeveless errand. A sort of shotgun marriage between farce and melodrama, Ramshackle Inn is lousy with murders, lacking in thrills, not very long on laughs. As a befuddled innkeeper who winds up more than a match for the villains, Actress Pitts is amusing enough, but by no means a match for the bad play...