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Claire Trevor, as art expert O'Brien's intrepid girl friend, shows up in a sensational new hairdo for each new scene, and is nice to look at. Herbert Marshall, who might, at any moment, turn out to be either a crook or a Scotland Yard investi gator, goes about his work with an air of bored relaxation. And if Mr. O'Brien appears to know nothing about art, he obviously knows what thriller addicts like...
...Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, "Slim" Gaillard, and modern jazz in general. The impression you gave was that all lovers of hot jazz are zoot-suited marijuana-smoking characters who stay up till the wee hours of the morning saying: "Zoot! You're as mellow as a cello, 'gator, let's have some mellow-rooney jive...
Four ships had bombed the target, then headed home in a tight diamond formation. Fourteen Jap fighters jumped them, shot down the win ship "Fyrtle Myrtle" (socalled because one of its crew was a new father, another expectant). Then the Zeros shot out one of "Golden Gator's" engines; the pilot, Captain Frederick S. Hinze Jr., dived the ship into a cloud...
Death Battle. The "Golden Gator" lost another engine, and a third was stalling. Captain Hinze dived sharply to windmill the engine back into action, skimming so low over a small island that the tail took a chunk out of a tree. The "Golden Gator" climbed hopefully again, but this time twin-engined Jap fighters attacked...
...blazed. A bullet hit the skipper in the chest but he still kept the plane under control. Somehow, with one foot shot away, part of his face blown in, his hands a mass of bloody flesh and a hole straight through his chest, he did set the 'Golden Gator' down on the water. ... I picked myself up and reached for the skipper. But he was dead. His job was done...