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...still on Flores when the Japs attacked the N.E.I. In eight days the Dutch lost Java. Gallant but inept, the Dutch Navy bungled into calamity and the Dutch air force was destroyed. Thereafter, it would have been pointless, militarily, for the Dutch Army to attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...
...Gallant Journey," the second feature, is a tribute to the pioneer of glider flight that makes him seem much too slogging and dreary a person to have envisioned flight, or to have enchanted Janet Blair so consistently...
...does it with an air of dithery, appreciative interest that soon has most guests babbling as if they had known her for years. Once she had Jimmy Durante telling such pitiable stories about his youth that, before the program's end, both were sobbing. Last week she interviewed Gallant Bess, The Talking Horse (see cut), who made horse-faces at the mike-and whispered.* The only other participant in these scenes is Mary Margaret's announcer-a 37-year-old Princeton graduate named Vincent Connolly, whom she has been known to buss maternally after the show...
...about his father-but Stymie's greatgrandfather on both sides of the family was Man o' War. When he ran three years ago in a $1,500 claiming race, Stymie sank about as low as bigtime race horses can sink. Last week, by galloping home in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica, Long Island, Stymie became the second horse in history to earn more than a half-million dollars...
...First Lord knows whom to summon in such a scandalous and unBritish emergency. "You're ready for active service now, Hornblower?" "Yes, my Lord," replies gallant Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower...