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...Manila under Japanese bombers by the moonlight of early morning. And on Monday, too, since radio is a two-way affair, the Office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel Donovan) suggested to all U.S. short-wave stations that in reporting news to Europe they "make no attempt to gloss over the gravity of the first day's losses of the U.S. in the Pacific...
James Cain has a cold authority about suburban vice which could yield an invaluable gloss on Middletown or even on the works of Lardner and O'Hara. His trouble is not knowing when to stop. His money gets so cold, his sex so hot, his snobbery so snakelike and his dirty work so predictably subhuman, that their victims are scarcely more than caricatures of human fallibility. But the drugstore-library sensationalism that still overhangs Cain's work does not stop him from being one of the most readable storytellers in the U.S. He has broadened his subject matter...
...seems to me that it is much better to send the news to Latin America than to gloss over any facts fit to print...
...spite of these difficulties of plot, a very able job of direction manages to gloss over the picture's many weaknesses and to produce what is on the whole a slightly superior sea adventure yarn. The second feature on the double bill is a rather obnoxious attempt to make Bob Crosby lovable like his big brother. The plot is dull, as is Crosby's acting; and the songs (including "Fight ON for Newton High") don't help much. All in all, it's insignificant but unobjectionable...
...Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy, in which armor and striking power are sacrificed for speed, is good only for swift hit-&-run attacks, not for a stand-up fight with the tough...