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...last great Nov. 13-15 naval battle of Guadalcanal, when he lost a battleship, nine cruisers, six destroyers, twelve transports and had two battleships, a cruiser and six destroyers damaged, has the Jap dared get in a real slugfest with U.S. naval units. But since mid-June, in various fruitless sallies, he has lost six to seven cruisers, at least eleven destroyers, one seaplane tender, one transport, four to six cargo ships. Admitted U.S. losses for that same period were the cruiser Helena, the destroyers Strong and Gwin and the transport McCawley...
Hers to Hold (Universal) is another example of the high artfulness whereby Universal has inched its best-paying property, Diva Deanna Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings...
...Germans, trying to enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead in the Kuban, threw eight to ten divisions into a fruitless offensive. In the Kalinin sector, northwest of Moscow, General Maxim Purkaev, Soviet Military Attache in Berlin when war began, led a limited Soviet drive through the scrubby birch forests. But the most important action was taking place behind the fronts...
...wreak more destruction. Rommel's tanks and infantry hurtled along the corridor. But Montgomery was ready for them. He smashed the first attack. He smashed wave after wave with his armor and artillery. Rommel finally retired, bruised, having lost 33 tanks and suffered heavy infantry casualties in the fruitless engagement...
...self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace; that promise was not kept. At the end of World War II, Russia may be expected to cooperate with...